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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers in the market currently, and also holds the second highest market share after AWS. Azure has a sophisticated set of services that will help you build fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. Hands-On Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through multiple PaaS services available in Azure, including App Services, Functions, and Service Fabric, and explain in detail how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. You will learn about how to maximize your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, and even search engines such as Azure Search. In the concluding chapters, this book covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager. By the end of the book, you will be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies, which will help make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)

Monitoring and diagnostics

In the final section of this chapter, we will cover some topics regarding monitoring and diagnosing your services in SF. As you probably remember, I noted such features as one of the most important in microservices, as you have to always be able to tell how each one works and perform the needed action (such as scale out, restart, or kill an instance) if required. In SF, there are a few levels of monitoring that we will briefly describe here.

Application monitoring

In most cases, you want to monitor how your application works, what the user traffic is, and how your services communicate with each other. While you are able to bring your own framework, you can also leverage Application Insights (AI)...