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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

Introduction to Serverless Architecture, Event-Driven Architecture, and Cloud Databases

This first chapter introduces the book’s content, which includes the modernization of apps using application programming interfaces (APIs), event-driven architecture, functions, and Service Fabric, and connecting them with a database.

Modernization is not just reserved for companies that have been operating stable systems for years and whose data volume has evolved. Organizations want to remain profitable and not be left behind by not modernizing technology and taking advantage of changes in the market due to world-changing factors, such as Covid-19.

Modernization is about accelerating innovation and reducing costs. Modernization is not just about the app but also the data.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding serverless architecture
  • Understanding the role of APIs inside an application and their ecosystem
  • Understanding event-driven architecture
  • Exploring cloud databases