Overview
- The first book to cover the critical topic of hardening cloud applications for maximum reliability and security
- Learn the tips, tricks and secrets of hardened Azure application development from authors who have personally developed and deployed massively scalable systems
- Includes case studies of major cloud service failures
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Build large-scale, mission-critical hardened applications on the Azure cloud platform. This 2nd edition provides information on the newer features in Azure, such as Linux extensions and supporting Azure Services such as HDInsight and SQL Server on Linux. Updated with new applications Hardening Azure Applications also discusses Scale Sets (VMSS), a major upgrade that enables autoscaling and seamlessly makes machines ready for high availability.
The authors take you step by step through the process of evaluating and building applications with the appropriate hardness attributes. After a small introduction to cloud computing, you will learn about various cloud and hardened cloud applications in detail. Next, you will discover service fundamentals such as instrumentation, telemetry, and monitoring followed by key application experiences. Further, you will cover availability and the economics of 9s. Towards the end, you will see how to secure your application and learnabout the modernization of software organisations, a new topic in this edition.
After reading this book, you will master the techniques and engineering principles that every architect and developer needs to know to harden their Azure/.NET applications to ensure maximum reliability and high availability when deployed at scale.
What You Will Learn
- Use techniques and principles to harden Azure/.NET applications
- Secure your applications on Azure
- Create a scale set on Azure
- Work with service fundamentals such as instrumentation, telemetry, and monitoring
Who This Book Is For
Developers and IT professionals who are working on Azure applications.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Suraj Gaurav is a Cloud Leader working with Microsoft in Greater Seattle area. He has 12 years’ experience in building large scale services and software systems. He has worked in Microsoft for the last 10 years in various groups including O365/Exchange Online, Commerce Platform and BizTalk server.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hardening Azure Applications
Book Subtitle: Techniques and Principles for Building Large-Scale, Mission-Critical Applications
Authors: Suren Machiraju, Suraj Gaurav
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4188-2
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Suren Machiraju and Suraj Gaurav 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-4187-5Published: 25 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-4188-2Published: 24 December 2018
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXII, 254
Number of Illustrations: 94 b/w illustrations
Topics: Microsoft and .NET