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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)

Azure Data Lake analytics

Azure Data Lake analytics is one of the flagship services from Azure to execute analytics jobs. Azure Data Lake stores took care of storing big data in an optimized way. However, for an end-to-end scenario, the data in storage is useful if it is read by a service and that service can perform analytics on it and gain meaningful insights. The analytics service is compute intensive in nature because of deep processing of a large quantity of data. To setup an environment for such a service involves provisioning and configuring virtual machines, tune them for performance and maintain them. Azure Data Lake analytics provides platform as a service capability for running analytics jobs. It means users no more need to think about provisioning and configuring infrastructure and hardware, rather, they can concentrate on writing their analytics job and focus on the...