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Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By : Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria
Book Image

Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By: Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria

Overview of this book

Thanks to its support for high availability, scalability, security, performance, and disaster recovery, Azure has been widely adopted to create and deploy different types of application with ease. Updated for the latest developments, this third edition of Azure for Architects helps you get to grips with the core concepts of designing serverless architecture, including containers, Kubernetes deployments, and big data solutions. You'll learn how to architect solutions such as serverless functions, you'll discover deployment patterns for containers and Kubernetes, and you'll explore large-scale big data processing using Spark and Databricks. As you advance, you'll implement DevOps using Azure DevOps, work with intelligent solutions using Azure Cognitive Services, and integrate security, high availability, and scalability into each solution. Finally, you'll delve into Azure security concepts such as OAuth, OpenConnect, and managed identities. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to design intelligent Azure solutions based on containers and serverless functions.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Summary

Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service with unmatched time to insight that accelerates the delivery of BI, AI, and intelligent applications for enterprises. You will gain a lot of benefits by migrating your legacy data warehouse to Azure Synapse Analytics, including performance, speed, improved security and compliance, elasticity, managed infrastructure, scalability, and cost savings.

With Azure Synapse, data professionals of varying skillsets can collaborate, manage, and analyze their most important data with ease—all within the same service. From Apache Spark integration with the powerful and trusted SQL engine, to code-free data integration and management, Azure Synapse is built for every data professional.

This chapter provided the architectural considerations and high-level methodology needed to prepare for and execute the migration of an existing legacy data warehouse system to Azure Synapse Analytics.

Successful data migration projects...