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Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns

By : Oliver Michalski, Stefano Demiliani
Book Image

Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns

By: Oliver Michalski, Stefano Demiliani

Overview of this book

A well designed cloud infrastructure covers factors such as consistency, maintenance, simplified administration and development, and reusability. Hence it is important to choose the right architectural pattern as it has a huge impact on the quality of cloud-hosted services. This book covers all Azure design patterns and functionalities to help you build your cloud infrastructure so it fits your system requirements. This book initially covers design patterns that are focused on factors such as availability and data management/monitoring. Then the focus shifts to complex design patterns such as multitasking, improving scalability, valet keys, and so on, with practical use cases. The book also supplies best practices to improve the security and performance of your cloud. By the end of this book, you will thoroughly be familiar with the different design and architectural patterns available with Windows Azure and capable of choosing the best pattern for your system.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Availability

In the last four chapters, I have tried to give you a deeper insight into the Azure platform with a comprehensive introduction. You have learned which building blocks (services) are available and how they can be used (also, of course,  combining individual parts with each other). At least theoretically, you know all the basics to create your own Azure solutions.

Or? Yes, if I ask, there is, of course, an or.

I am a solution architect, which means I construct individual solutions for enterprises. The process of designing an enterprise application is very complex, and knowing the available components is only one part of this process. So, if we want to look at the design process as a whole, we also have to consider the aspect of everyday work, along with the solution.

What are the aspects of daily work? Answering this question is a bit difficult, as there is usually no clear picture of what we consider relevant to our work. In order to provide at least one approach to an...