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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

There are numerous services available on Azure and most can be combined to create real solutions. It was difficult to write about design patterns in 20 pages where there are hundreds of services and multiple ways to bring them together. This chapter explained the three most important services from Azure--regions, storage, and networks. They almost form the backbone of every solution deployed on any cloud. This chapter provided details about these services and how their configuration and provisioning can affect design decisions. The important considerations for both storage and networks were detailed in this chapter. Both networks and storage provide lots of choices and it is important to choose an appropriate configuration based on requirement. Finally, some of the important design patterns related to messaging such as competing consumers, priority queues, and load leveling...