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Azure for Architects

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Azure for Architects

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Visual Studio Team Services

Now, it's time to focus on another revolutionary online service, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), that enables continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous delivery seamlessly. In fact, it would be more appropriate to call it a suite of services available under a single name. VSTS is a PaaS provided by Microsoft and hosted on the cloud. The same service is available as Team Foundation Services (TFS) on-premise. All examples used in this book uses VSTS.

According to Microsoft, VSTS is a cloud-based collaboration platform that helps teams in sharing code, tracking work and shipping software. VSTS is the new name and earlier it was known as visual studio online (VSO). VSTS is an enterprise software development tool and service that enables organizations in providing automation facilities to their end-to-end application life...