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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)

Design patterns

Design patterns are proven solutions to known design problems. They are reusable solutions that can be applied to problems. They are not reusable codes or designs that can be incorporated as is within a solution. They are documented descriptions and guidance to solve a problem. The problem might manifest itself in a different context and design patterns can help solve them. Azure provides numerous services with each service providing a specific feature and capability. Using these services is straightforward, but creating solutions weaving multiple services can be a challenge. Moreover, achieving high availability, super-scalability, reliability, performance, and security for a solution is not a menial task. Azure design patterns provide ready solutions to these problems and provide solutions that can be tailor-made to individual solutions. They help in making...