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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

Azure Cosmos DB

Cosmos DB is Azure's truly cross-region, highly available, distributed, multi-model database service. Cosmos DB is for you if you would like your solution to be highly responsive and always available. As this is a cross-region multi-model database, we can deploy applications closer to the user's location and achieve low latency and high availability.

With the click of a button, throughput and storage can be scaled across any number of Azure regions. There are a few different database models to cover almost all non-relational database requirements, including:

  1. SQL (documents)
  2. MongoDB
  3. Cassandra
  4. Table
  5. Gremlin Graph

The hierarchy of objects within Cosmos DB starts with the Cosmos DB account. An account can have multiple databases, and each database can have multiple containers. Depending on the type of database, the container might consist of documents, as in the case of SQL; semi-structured key-value data within Table storage...