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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 functions use cases

There are many valid use cases for using and implementing Azure functions.

Implementing microservices

Azure functions help in breaking down large applications into smaller discreet functional code units. Each unit is treated independent of the other and evolves in its own life cycle. Each such code unit has its own compute, hardware, and monitoring requirements. Each function can be connected to all other functions. These units are weaved together by orchestrators to build complete functionality. For example, in an e-commerce application, there can be individual functions (code units) each responsible for listing catalogs, recommendations, categories, subcategories, shopping carts, checkouts, payment...