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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

The evolution of functions from traditional methods has led to the design of the loosely coupled, independently evolving, self-reliant serverless architecture that was only a concept in earlier days. Functions are a unit of deployment and provide an environment that does not need to be managed by the user at all. All they have to care about is the code written for the functionality. Azure provides a mature platform for hosting functions and integrating them seamlessly, based on events or on demand. Nearly every resource in Azure can participate in an architecture composed of Azure functions. The future is functions, as more and more organizations want to stay away from managing infrastructures and platforms. They want to offload this to cloud providers. Azure Functions is an essential feature to master for every architect dealing with Azure.

This chapter went into the details of Azure Functions, Functions as a Service, Durable Functions, and Event Grid. The next chapter...