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A Developer's Guide to Building Resilient Cloud Applications with Azure

By : Hamida Rebai Trabelsi
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A Developer's Guide to Building Resilient Cloud Applications with Azure

By: Hamida Rebai Trabelsi

Overview of this book

To deliver software at a faster rate and reduced costs, companies with stable legacy systems and growing data volumes are trying to modernize their applications and accelerate innovation, but this is no easy matter. A Developer’s Guide to Building Resilient Cloud Applications with Azure helps you overcome these application modernization challenges to build secure and reliable cloud-based applications on Azure and connect them to databases with the help of easy-to-follow examples. The book begins with a basic definition of serverless and event-driven architecture and Database-as-a-Service, before moving on to an exploration of the different services in Azure, namely Azure API Management using the gateway pattern, event-driven architecture, Event Grid, Azure Event Hubs, Azure message queues, FaaS using Azure Functions, and the database-oriented cloud. Throughout the chapters, you’ll learn about creating, importing, and managing APIs and Service Fabric in Azure, and discover how to ensure continuous integration and deployment in Azure to fully automate the software delivery process, that is, the build and release process. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build and deploy cloud-oriented applications using APIs, serverless, Service Fabric, Azure Functions, and Event Grid technologies.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Building Cloud-Oriented Apps Using Patterns and Technologies
5
Part 2: Connecting Your Application with Azure Databases
13
Part 3: Ensuring Continuous Integration and Continuous Container Deployment on Azure

Exploring Azure Disk Storage

Azure Disk Storage provides managed storage for virtual machine disks. But applications and services are allowed to use these disks as needed. In Disk Storage, data is persistently stored and accessed from an attached virtual hard disk.

We have different disk sizes and performance levels, from solid-state drives (SSDs) to traditional hard disk drives (HDDs).

Azure Managed Disks uses redundancy to achieve availability. The user is allowed to create up to 50,000 virtual machine disks within a region. Consider your capacity and performance requirements when using Azure Managed Disks. The cost depends on the type of storage hardware and the size of the virtual disk.

We’ve defined Azure Disk Storage, so now we’ll move on to Azure Files in the next section.