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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

Data is one of the most crucial elements for a solution. Data has value and they need to be protected and secured. The nature of data has changed over the last few years. Data has grown exponentially in terms of volume, and the velocity of generation of data has also increased manifold. Data is also stored on-premise and on the cloud, in PaaS and IaaS services and there are a ton of drivers and protocols to access them. The data can be in any format and so parsing and understanding data across all formats is a challenge by itself. Azure provides rich services to handle all these newer facets of data. Azure provides Azure SQL, SQL on IaaS, elastic pools, sharding, data factory, stream analytics, Data Lake store and analytics, data warehouse, machine learning, and Power BI to architect end-to-end data solutions from ingestion of data to processing, transformation, loading...