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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

The Azure Service Fabric development environment

We have many different options to adopt Service Fabric. Service Fabric is a free, open source project whose source code is available on GitHub. Service Fabric supports three different execution environments:

  • On-premises environment: You can install Service Fabric locally on your servers or VMs. This scenario is suitable for the first cloud migration of your workloads.
  • Public cloud: Azure Service Fabric allows cluster creation. Note that we have the same Service Fabric functionalities as the previous environment because we can use the same runtime and SDK.
  • Public cloud with other providers: We can install Service Fabric on any VM using any operating system.

We can consider another environment using containers as if they were nodes of a cluster. As we said before, Service Fabric is open source so it is free. However, if you deploy to a cloud provider, then you pay for the computing resources that you provision.

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