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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)

Principles of serverless technology

Serverless technology is based on the following principles.

Lower cost

Cost is based on the actual consumption of the compute resources and power. There is no cost associated to them if there is no consumption.

Event-driven

Serverless functions should be able to execute based on certain events happening. The event should trigger the execution of the function. In other words, serverless should allow functions to decouple themselves from other functions and instead rely on the firing of certain events in which they are interested in.

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