Azure Integration Guide for Business: Master effective architecture strategies for business innovation
Author(s): Joshua Garverick (Author), Jack Lee (Author), Mélony Qin (Author), Trevoir Williams (Author)
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 28 Sept. 2023
Language: English
Print length: 217 pages
ISBN-10: 1837639140
ISBN-13: 9781837639144
Book Description
Utilize the cloud to optimize costs, improve security, and seamlessly scale your operations
Key Features
Achieve your operation goals with Azure infrastructure
Optimize costs with serverless event-driven solutions through Azure cloud patterns
Boost productivity with Azure architecture’s flexibility and scalability
Book Description
Azure Integration Guide for Business is essential for decision makers who plan to transform their business with Microsoft Azure. The Microsoft Azure cloud platform can improve availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency for any business.
This guide gives practical insights into networking infrastructure and design to help you optimize your cloud architecture for performance and costs. It provides in-depth information to help you develop an automated, secure, scalable solution. This book discusses core elements of the Azure ecosystem, such as big data solutions, cost governance, and best practices in Azure to help decision makers optimize their business.
By the end of this guide, you will understand what a well-architected Azure solution looks like and know how to lead your organization toward a tailored Azure solution that meets your business needs.
What you will learn
Optimize 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 easily with the best Azure tools, platforms, and resources
Explore the benefits of automation for enhanced productivity
Improve availability and effective monitoring with Azure
Who This Book Is For
This book is for Business decision makers who want to benefit from the flexibility, scalability, and optimized costs of Microsoft Azure to scale their business. Some knowledge of Azure is recommended to get the most out of this book.
Table of Contents
Unlock new opportunities with Azure
Achieve availability, scalability, and monitoring with Azure
Cloud Architecture Design Patterns
Azure Network Infrastructure and Design
Automating Architecture on Azure
Optimize Performance with Azure OLTP Solutions
Designing serverless architecture solutions in Azure
Deploy, manage, and scale containers with Azure Kubernetes Service
Designing Big Data Solutions with Azure
Architecting Secure Applications on a Trusted Platform
Cost Governance on Azure
Conclusion
Editorial Reviews
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. Mélony 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, Mélony has authored multiple books, including the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam Guide, the Kubernetes Workshop, and Microsoft Azure Infrastructure, all published by Packt Publishing. Mélony 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 and part-time lecturer. 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 system, 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.