A hands-on guide to mastering Azure cloud design patterns and best practices.
Key Features
- Master architectural design patterns in Azure.
- Get hands-on with implementing design patterns.
- Implement best practices for improving efficiency and security
Book Description
A well designed cloud infrastructure covers factors such as consistency, maintenance, simplified administration and development, and reusability. Hence it is important to choose the right architectural pattern as it has a huge impact on the quality of cloud-hosted services. This book covers all Azure design patterns and functionalities to help you build your cloud infrastructure so it fits your system requirements.
This book initially covers design patterns that are focused on factors such as availability and data management/monitoring. Then the focus shifts to complex design patterns such as multitasking, improving scalability, valet keys, and so on, with practical use cases. The book also supplies best practices to improve the security and performance of your cloud.
By the end of this book, you will thoroughly be familiar with the different design and architectural patterns available with Windows Azure and capable of choosing the best pattern for your system.
What you will learn
- Learn to organize Azure access
- Design the core areas of the Azure Execution Model
- Work with storage and data management
- Create a health endpoint monitoring pattern
- Automate early detection of anomalies
- Identify and secure Azure features
Who This Book Is For
This book is targeted at cloud architects and cloud solution providers who are looking for an extensive guide to implementing different patterns for the deployment and maintenance of services in Microsoft Azure. Prior experience with Azure is required as the book is completely focused on design patterns.
Table of Contents
- An Introduction toMicrosoft Azure
- Compute Design & Management
- Data Storage and Processing
- Networking Design & Management
- Availability
- Performance & Scalability
- Monitoring & Telemetry
- Resieliency
- Identity & Security
Oliver Michalski started his IT career in 1999 as a Web Developer. Now, he is a Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft .NET and an SOA Architect. He also works as an Independent Enterprise Consultant in the field of Microsoft Azure. When he started with Microsoft Azure in 2011, there was no Azure Community in Germany. Therefore, Oliver founded Azure Community Germany (ACD).Oliver is Chairman of Azure Community Germany with effect from April 2016 and from July 2017 he has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Microsoft Azure.Stefano Demiliani is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and a long-time expert on different Microsoft technologies. He has a master's degree in computer engineering from Politecnico of Turin. He works as a CTO for EID/Navlab (Microsoft Partner in Italy) and he's frequently involved on helping customers on moving their business to the Azure cloud.He has worked with Packt for many IT books and he’s the author of Building ERP solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, a hands-on guide on how to build enterprise architectures based on the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP and the Azure platform.
