Overview
- Teaches you how to identify and effectively resolve the major challenges of morphing a legacy on-premise application into a cloud-first, resilient, and scalable platform
- Shows you how to hit the ground running with best practices and valuable tools for futurizing existing code and infrastructure
- Prepares you to create concise plans for communicating the baseline, target, and transition architectures to key stakeholders
- Walks you through the entire process of performing an intake on a legacy application, from the planning phase to executing the target (desired) state
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Assessing the Legacy
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Planning for the Future
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Bringing it to the Cloud
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About this book
Design an enterprise solution from scratch that allows the migration of a legacy application. Begin with the planning and design phase and be guided through all the stages of selecting the architecture framework that fits your enterprise.
Join Microsoft MVP Josh Garverick as he addresses all major areas of design and implementation—application, infrastructure, data, security, and deployment—while leveraging the power and tools of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to bring DevOps to the forefront.
With an emphasis on principles and best practices of enterprise design, you will discover how to recognize existing patterns within the legacy platform and to identify potential risks, bottlenecks, and candidates for automation.
What You’ll Learn
- Accurately and completely capture baseline information about a legacy system
- Leverage enterprise patterns for constructing next-generation platforms in the cloud
- Design, plan,and implement deployment pipelines to enable continuous delivery
- Identify and implement cloud-based platform components to reduce total cost of ownership
- Understand testing and validation: iterative component authoring, monitoring, deployment, and performance
- Price and perform capacity planning for cloud-based infrastructure and workloads
Who This Book Is For
Enterprise architects and IT professionals who are required to keep legacy applications relevant in today’s cloud-first world
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Josh Garverick is a Microsoft MVP and a seasoned IT professional with more than 15 years of enterprise experience working in several large industries (finance, healthcare, transportation, logistics). He specializes in Application Lifecycle Management and is currently involved with DevOps and architecture projects, focusing specifically on software architecture and enterprise needs. Josh is a Visual Studio ALM Ranger, providing guidance, practical experience, and solutions to the developer community. When not geeking out over technology and architecture frameworks, he enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Migrating to Azure
Book Subtitle: Transforming Legacy Applications into Scalable Cloud-First Solutions
Authors: Josh Garverick
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3585-0
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Josh Garverick 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-3584-3Published: 24 October 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3585-0Published: 23 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 300
Number of Illustrations: 86 b/w illustrations
Topics: Microsoft and .NET, Computer Applications, Business IT Infrastructure, Software Management