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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)

Azure SQL scaling out

Azure SQL is a versatile platform and provides features to cater to different needs. Azure scale out is one such feature, also known as sharding. Imagine a situation of having a very large database containing millions of rows. The performance of queries is degrading because of a large number of writes and reads have to traverse through large recordsets. It is a better design to break this large database into multiple smaller databases and distribute data among them. However, to write such a controller or manager is a difficult and herculean task. Azure provides scaling out features to cater to this need of horizontally partitioning data between multiple databases. Client applications connect to the primary Azure database that is responsible for querying data from appropriate databases, collating the information and send it back to the client application....