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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 functions or functions as a service - FaaS

Azure provides functions as a resource. They are serverless implementations from Azure. With Azure functions, code can be written in any language the user is comfortable with and an Azure function will provide a runtime to execute them. Based on the language chosen, an appropriate platform is provided to users for bringing their own code. They are a unit of deployment and can automatically be out and in. When dealing with functions, users cannot view the underlying virtual machines and platform but Azure functions provide a small window to see them in terms of the Kudu console.

Azure functions runtime, bindings, and triggers

There are two main components of Azure functions.

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