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Azure for Architects

You're reading from   Azure for Architects Implementing cloud design, DevOps, IoT, and serverless solutions on your public cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788397391
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ritesh Modi Ritesh Modi
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Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Azure Design Patterns FREE CHAPTER 3. Designing High Availability 4. Implementing Scalability 5. Cloud Security 6. Designing IoT Solutions 7. Designing and Implementing Data Solutions 8. Designing and Implementing Serverless Solutions 9. Designing Policies, Locks, and Tags 10. DevOps on Azure 11. Cost Management 12. Monitoring and Auditing

Azure SQL scaling out

Azure SQL is a versatile platform and provides features to cater to different needs. Azure scale out is one such feature, also known as sharding. Imagine a situation of having a very large database containing millions of rows. The performance of queries is degrading because of a large number of writes and reads have to traverse through large recordsets. It is a better design to break this large database into multiple smaller databases and distribute data among them. However, to write such a controller or manager is a difficult and herculean task. Azure provides scaling out features to cater to this need of horizontally partitioning data between multiple databases. Client applications connect to the primary Azure database that is responsible for querying data from appropriate databases, collating the information and send it back to the client application....

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