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Azure Integration Guide for Business

By : Joshua Garverick, Jack Lee, Mélony Qin, Trevoir Williams
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Azure Integration Guide for Business

By: Joshua Garverick, Jack Lee, Mélony Qin, Trevoir Williams

Overview of this book

Azure Integration Guide for Business is essential for decision makers planning to transform their business with Microsoft Azure. The Microsoft Azure cloud platform can improve the availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of any business. The guidance in this book will help decision makers gain valuable insights into proactively managing their applications and infrastructure. You'll learn to apply best practices in Azure Virtual Network and Azure Storage design, ensuring an efficient and secure cloud infrastructure. You'll also discover how to automate Azure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and leverage various Azure services to support OLTP applications. Next, you’ll explore how to implement Azure offerings for event-driven architectural solutions and serverless applications. Additionally, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge on how to develop an automated, secure, and scalable solutions. Core elements of the Azure ecosystem will be discussed in the final chapters of the book, such as big data solutions, cost governance, and best practices to help you optimize your business. By the end of this book, you’ll understand what a well-architected Azure solution looks like and how to lead your organization toward a tailored Azure solution that meets your business needs.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Integrating apps with Azure Event Grid

Azure Event Grid is a highly scalable and fully managed message distribution service that allows for seamless integration of applications. With Azure Event Grid, you can easily build data pipelines, integrate applications, and create event-driven serverless architectures. This service enables publishers to announce system state changes (events) to subscriber applications through HTTP, facilitating event-driven solutions. Event Grid supports both push and pull delivery, allowing subscribers to connect and read events or receive events directly, as shown in Figure 7.11:

Figure 7.11: Azure Event Grid messaging

With its support for the CloudEvents 1.0 specification, Event Grid ensures interoperability across systems. Whether it’s data ingestion from IoT devices or data distribution using push and pull delivery modes, Azure Event Grid serves as a crucial component of data pipelines and integration scenarios. It...