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Azure for Architects. - Second Edition

By : Ritesh Modi
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Azure for Architects. - Second Edition

By: Ritesh Modi

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services have 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. Azure for Architects – Second Edition starts with an extensive introduction to major designing and architectural aspects available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of the cloud, such as high availability, security, and scalability. Gradually, we move on to other aspects, such as ARM template modular design and deployments. This is the age of microservices and serverless is the preferred implementation mechanism for them. This book covers the entire serverless stack available in Azure including Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions, and Azure Logic Apps. New and advance features like durable functions are discussed at length. A complete integration solution using these serverless technologies is also part of the book. A complete chapter discusses all possible options related to containers in Azure including Azure Kubernetes services, Azure Container Instances and Registry, and Web App for Containers. Data management and integration is an integral part of this book that discusses options for implementing OLTP solutions using Azure SQL, Big Data solutions using Azure Data factory and Data Lake Storage, eventing solutions using stream analytics, and Event Hubs. This book will provide insights into Azure governance features such as tagging, RBAC, cost management, and policies. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop a full-?edged Azure cloud solution that is Enterprise class and future-ready.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Azure Functions advantages

Serverless computing is a relatively new paradigm and helps organizations convert large functionalities into smaller, discrete, on-demand functions that can be invoked and executed through automated triggers and scheduled jobs. They are also known as Functions as a Service (FaaS), in which organizations can focus on their domain challenges instead of the underlying infrastructure and platform. FaaS also helps in devolving solution architectures into smaller, reusable functions, thereby increasing return on investments.

There is a plethora of serverless compute platforms available. Some of the important ones are listed here:

  • Azure Functions
  • AWS Lambda
  • IBM OpenWhisk
  • Iron.io
  • Google Cloud Functions

In fact, every few days it feels like there is a new framework being introduced, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for enterprises to decide on the...