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You're reading from Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure Re-architect and rebuild your applications using cloud-native technologies

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781839217470

Length 494 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (7):

Amit Malik

Mohamed Waly

Stefano Demiliani

Jason Marston

Sander Rossel

Sjoukje Zaal

+3 more

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Planning Application Modernization FREE CHAPTER

2. Strategies for Application Modernization Using Azure

3. Building Your Application Migration Roadmap

4. Implementing Containerization and DevOps in a Development Cycle

5. Getting Started with Docker and Kubernetes

6. Deploying Highly Scalable Apps with Kubernetes

7. Modernizing Apps and Infrastructure with DevOps

8. Building a Web and Microservices Architecture on Azure

9. Designing Web Applications

10. Scalability and Performance

11. Building Microservices with Service Fabric

12. Going Serverless and Deploying to the Cloud

13. Building Scalable Systems with Azure Functions

14. Connecting to the Database

15. Managing and Deploying Your Code

16. Securing Your Azure Services

17. Planning for Security, Availability, and Monitoring

18. Diagnostics and Monitoring

19. Designing for High Availability and Disaster Recovery

20. Assessments

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Understanding Cosmos DB

Besides SQL databases, Azure has some Not Only SQL (NoSQL) options, with Cosmos DB being Microsoft's very own solution. Cosmos DB is only available in the cloud and no on-premises version currently exists. Like Azure SQL, Cosmos DB is a PaaS solution. The cool thing about Cosmos DB is that it has APIs for all the major NoSQL models out there: the key-value model, the document model, the graph model, and the wide column model.

The Cosmos DB document API matches the popular MongoDB database API and the wide column API matches the Apache Cassandra database API, meaning that you can easily move those databases to Cosmos DB and your software will continue to work. Additionally, Cosmos DB has a SQL API. This doesn't mean your data is stored in a relational model; it simply means that a SQL layer was added over a document database. While Cosmos...

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Authors (6)

Sjoukje Zaal

Sjoukje Zaal is head of the Microsoft Cloud Center of Excellence, Microsoft Regional Director, and Microsoft Azure MVP with over 20 years' experience in architecture, development, consultancy, and design-related roles. She currently works at Capgemini, a global leader in consultancy, technology services, and digital transformation. She loves to share her knowledge and is active in the Microsoft community as a co-founder of the user groups Tech Daily Chronicle, Global XR Community, and the Mixed Reality User Group. She is also a board member of Azure Thursdays and Global Azure. Sjoukje is an international speaker and is involved in organizing many events. She has written several books and writes blogs.

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Marston

Jason Marston is a Cloud Solution Architect based in England. He was recruited by Microsoft because of his OSS background. Jason has worked with Java since version 1 and has a long history with open source. He has over 30 years' experience of developing software and now helps organizations migrate and modernize legacy applications to the cloud. Jason was an SME in the Worldwide Communities project at Microsoft and, as part of the leadership team for those communities, helped many people solve their problems by adopting Java on Azure. In his spare time, Jason reads science fiction books and has two children who think he is a geek/nerd.

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Rossel

Sander Rossel is a Microsoft-certified professional developer and author with experience and expertise in .NET and .NET Core, Azure, Azure DevOps, SQL Server, JavaScript, and other technologies. With his company, JUUN Software, he builds cloud-native applications and brings companies to the cloud. You can always reach Sander Rossel on LinkedIn (/in/sanderrossel/).

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Amit Malik

Amit Malik is an IT enthusiast and technology evangelist from Delhi, India. He specializes in Virtualization, Cloud, and emerging technology space. He has an intense knowledge in building cloud solutions with Microsoft Windows Azure Pack. Amit holds various industry admired certifications from all major OEM's in Virtualization and Cloud space including MCSE for Private Cloud. Amit has designed and built numerous virtualization and private cloud solutions comprising the product lines of Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix. Apart from these, he can be found working on emerging technologies including VDI, hyper convergence, Software Defined Infrastructure solutions including networking and storage, Containers, Big Data, IoT, and other similar technologies. Amit is interested in building products and doing product management in near future for related technology space. You can always reach Amit on LinkedIn.

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Stefano Demiliani

Stefano Demiliani is a Microsoft MVP on Business Applications and Azure, MCT, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), Azure Certified Architect, and an expert in other Microsoft related technologies. His main activity is architecting and developing enterprise solutions based on the entire stack of Microsoft technologies (mainly focused on ERP and serverless applications). He has worked with Packt Publishing on many IT books related to Azure cloud applications and Dynamics 365 Business Central and is a frequent speaker at IT conferences around Europe. In his free time Stefano is also a runner and a cyclist.

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Mohamed Waly

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