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Azure for Architects

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Azure for Architects

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services has 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. This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

Monitoring is an important architectural aspect for any solution. It is also the first step towards auditability. It enables operations to manage the solution, both reactively and proactively. It helps provide necessary records for troubleshooting and fixing issues that might arise from platforms and applications. There are many resources in Azure specific to implementing monitoring for Azure, other clouds, and on-premise data centers. Application insights, OMS, and log analytics are some of the important resources in this regard. Needless to say, it is a must for making your solutions and products better by innovating based on insights from monitoring data.