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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)

Serverless

Serverless refers to a deployment model in which users are responsible for only their application code and configuration. Customers of serverless do not have to bother about the underlying platform and infrastructure and can concentrate on solving their business problems by writing code against them.

Serverless does not mean there are no servers. Code and configuration needs some server to run them. Serverless is from the customer's perspective. From the customer perspective, serverless means that they do not see the server at all. They do not care about the underlying platform and infrastructure. They do not need to manage and monitor them. Serverless provides an environment that can scale up and down, out and in, automatically, without the customers even knowing about it. All operations related to platforms and infrastructures happen behind the scenes, transparently...