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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 Service Fabric

We can consider three categories of Azure services to deploy cloud-based applications:

  • Platform as a Service (PaaS): This provides a hosted environment in which users can meet various computing needs. Users are able to develop, manage, and run applications on the platform while the PaaS provider manages the infrastructure. Azure offers PaaS services such as Service Fabric and Azure App Service.
  • Container as a Service (CaaS): The emergence of virtualization has transformed the IT industry, allowing people to run different operating systems simultaneously on a single computer. This has improved efficiency and improved performance. However, virtualization is not without its drawbacks. A separate operating system is required for a virtual environment to function. As a result, it takes up a lot of disk space. CaaS was born as a means of offloading hardware resources. CaaS providers give users access to containerized applications or clusters. Azure...