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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)

Best practices

This section describes High Availability best practices. They have been categorized into application, deployment, data management, and monitoring.

Application High Availability

An application should be built keeping High Availability as one of the important architectural concerns. Some of the important application related High Availability practices are mentioned next:

  • An application should implement appropriate exception handling to gracefully recover and inform stakeholders about the issue
  • An application should try to perform the same operation again in the fixed interval for a certain number of times before exiting in an event of an error or exception
  • An application should have inbuilt timeout capability...