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You're reading from Microservices with Azure Build highly maintainable and scalable enterprise-grade apps

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787121140

Length 360 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Distributed Computing

Authors (2):

Namit Tanasseri

Rahul Rai

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Microservices – Getting to Know the Buzzword FREE CHAPTER

2. Microsoft Azure Platform and Services Primer

3. Understanding Azure Service Fabric

4. Hands-on with Service Fabric – Guest Executables

5. Hands on with Service Fabric – Reliable Services

6. Reliable Actors

7. Microservices Architecture Patterns Motivation

8. Microservices Architectural Patterns

9. Securing and Managing Your Microservices

10. Diagnostics and Monitoring

11. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

12. Serverless Microservices

Understanding Azure Service Fabric

Microservices architecture portrays efficient mechanisms of solving modern enterprise problems. However, this simplification comes at a cost. Manually managing hyperscale deployments of Microservices is nearly impossible. Automating Microservices lifecycle management becomes an inevitable requirement to achieve enterprise-grade environment stability. This is where the role of Azure Service Fabric becomes significant. To start with, let's try to understand what Service Fabric is.

Mark Fussell, a senior program manager in the Microsoft Azure Service Fabric team, defines Service Fabric as the following:

Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable Microservices.

Let's dig deeper into this definition. The definition categorizes Service Fabric as a platform. A platform...

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Authors (2)

Rai

Rahul Rai is a technology consultant based in Sydney, Australia with over nine years of professional experience. He has been at the forefront of cloud consulting for government organizations and businesses around the world. Rahul has been working on Microsoft Azure since the service was in its infancy, delivering an ITSM tool built for and on Azure in 2008. Since then, Rahul has played the roles of a developer, a consultant, and an architect for nterprises ranging from small start-ups to multinational corporations. He worked for over five years with Microsoft Services with diverse teams to deliver innovative solutions on Microsoft Azure. In Microsoft, Rahul was a subject matter expert in Microsoft cloud technologies. Rahul has also worked as a cloud solution architect for Microsoft, for which he worked closely with some established Microsoft partners to drive joint customer transformations to cloud based architectures.

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Namit Tanasseri

Namit Tanasseri is a certified Microsoft cloud solutions architect with an experience of more than 11 years. He started his career as a software development engineer with Microsoft Research and Development Center in 2005. During the first five years of his career, he had opportunities to work with major Microsoft product groups, such as Microsoft Office and Windows. During this time, he strengthened his knowledge of agile software development methodologies and processes. He also earned a patent during this tenure. As a technology consultant with Microsoft, Namit worked with Microsoft Azure Services for four years. Namit is a subject matter expert in Microsoft Azure and actively contributes to the Microsoft cloud community, while delivering top quality solutions for Microsoft customers. Namit also led the Windows Azure community in Microsoft Services India. Namit currently serves as a Microsoft cloud solutions architect from Sydney, Australia, and works on large and medium-sized enterprise engagements.

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