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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)

Table storage

Azure table storage service is available as part of the Azure storage account. Azure storage provides multiple types of storage and table service is one among them. Azure table service is a fully managed, secure, scalable, highly available petabyte-scale storage service that helps in storing data in the NoSQL format. As we know, NoSQL helps in building schema-less design, Azure table service is also schema-less. It helps in storing documents using key-attribute pairs. What this means is that table service does not enforce any schema on entities. Entities can have different properties for each entity at the same time without modification.

Data in Azure tables is stored as entities. Data is stored in tabular format where entities form the rows and properties form individual columns. An entity is very similar to a row in a relational database and each table service...