Azure Integration Guide for Business: Master effective architecture strategies for business innovation - Softcover

Garverick, Joshua; Lee, Jack; Qin, Mélony; Williams, Trevoir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1837639140 ISBN 13: 9781837639144

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

Leverage the cloud to optimize costs, improve security, and seamlessly scale your business operations

Key Features

• Achieve your operational goals with Azure infrastructure
• Optimize costs with serverless event-driven solutions through Azure cloud patterns
• Boost productivity with Azure architecture’s flexibility and scalability
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

Azure Integration Guide for Business is essential for decision makers planning to transform their business with Microsoft Azure. The Microsoft Azure cloud platform can improve the availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of any business.

The guidance in this book will help decision makers gain valuable insights into proactively managing their applications and infrastructure. You'll learn to apply best practices in Azure Virtual Network and Azure Storage design, ensuring an efficient and secure cloud infrastructure. You'll also discover how to automate Azure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and leverage various Azure services to support OLTP applications. Next, you’ll explore how to implement Azure offerings for event-driven architectural solutions and serverless applications. Additionally, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge on how to develop an automated, secure, and scalable solutions. Core elements of the Azure ecosystem will be discussed in the final chapters of the book, such as big data solutions, cost governance, and best practices to help you optimize your business.

By the end of this book, you’ll understand what a well-architected Azure solution looks like and how to lead your organization toward a tailored Azure solution that meets your business needs.

What you will learn

• Optimize the performance and costs with Azure
• Select an effective, scalable, and flexible solution that aligns with your needs
• Harness the power of containers to drive your application development and deployment
• Create big data solutions with the best Azure tools, platforms, and resources
• Explore the benefits of automation for enhanced productivity
• Improve the availability and effectiveness of monitoring with Azure

Who this book is for

This book is for business decision makers looking to benefit from the flexibility, scalability, and optimized costs offered by Microsoft Azure to scale their businesses. Basic knowledge of Azure is recommended to get the most out of this book.

Table of Contents

1. Unlock New Opportunities with Azure
2. Achieve Availability, Scalability, and Monitoring with Azure
3. Cloud Architecture Design Patterns
4. Azure Network Infrastructure and Design
5. Automating Architecture on Azure
6. Optimize Performance with Azure OLTP Solutions
7. Designing Serverless Architecture Solutions in Azure
8. Deploying, Managing, and Scaling Containers with Azure Kubernetes Service
9. Designing Big Data Solutions with Azure
10. Architecting Secure Applications on a Trusted Platform
11. Cost Governance on Azure
12. Conclusion

About this title

About the Author

Joshua Garverick is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) and a seasoned IT professional with nearly two decades of enterprise experience in several large industries (finance, healthcare, transportation, and logistics). He specializes in Azure application and platform architecture and is currently involved with application modernization and digital transformation projects. Josh is a Microsoft Certified Solution Expert (MCSE) in Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, a certified Microsoft Azure Solution Architect Expert, and a Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert.

Jack Lee is a Microsoft MVP and an Azure Certified Solutions Architect with a passion for software development, cloud, and DevOps innovations. He is an active Microsoft tech community contributor and has presented at various user groups and conferences, among them the Global Azure Bootcamp at Microsoft Canada. Jack is an experienced mentor and judge at hackathons and is also the president of a user group that focuses on Azure, DevOps, and software development. He has authored numerous books published by Packt, notably Azure for Architects, Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, and Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure. In addition, he has earned multiple certifications including Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert.

Melony Y. QIN, also known as CloudMelon, is the founder of CloudMelon Vis, a tech media and educational platform for technopreneurs in the cloud-native and serverless space, and a former product manager at Microsoft. With a passion for cloud-native technologies, OSS, DevOps, Kubernetes, serverless, data, and AI, Melony has authored multiple books, including the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam Guide, the Kubernetes Workshop, and Microsoft Azure Infrastructure, all published by Packt Publishing. Melony is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Project Management Institute (PMI), leveraging her extensive experience with diverse cloud technologies to drive innovation in the cloud-native, serverless, and generative AI space. She runs the CloudMelonVis YouTube channel and Cloud-Native Innovators newsletter, read by professionals from top tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Dell, and Carrefour.

Trevoir Williams is a software engineer, lecturer, and author. With a master’s degree in computer science, he has spent over a decade teaching web, software, and database development courses. He also has extensive industry experience in web application development, Azure cloud services, and server administration. He enjoys teaching IT and development courses and hopes to impart knowledge of the latest developments in industry standards and techniques to his students.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1837639140
• ISBN 13: 9781837639144
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268