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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

IoT architecture

Before getting into Azure and its features and services regarding IoT, it is important to understand the various components that are needed to create end-to-end IoT solutions.

Consider that IoT devices across the globe are sending millions of messages every second to a centralized database. Why is this data being collected? Well, the answer is to extract rich information about events, anomalies, and outliers that are to do with whatever those devices are monitoring.

Let's understand this in more detail.

IoT architecture can be divided into distinct phases, as follows:

  1. Connectivity: This phase involves a connection being made between a device and the IoT service.
  2. Identity: After connecting to the IoT service, the first thing that happens is the identification of the device and ensuring that it is allowed to send device telemetry to the IoT service. This is done using an authentication process.
  3. Capture: During this phase, the device...