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Migrating to Azure

Transforming Legacy Applications into Scalable Cloud-First Solutions

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Assessing the Legacy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Baseline

      • Josh Garverick
      Pages 3-24
    3. Domain Architectures

      • Josh Garverick
      Pages 25-43
    4. Security and Compliance

      • Josh Garverick
      Pages 45-64
    5. Operating Models

      • Josh Garverick
      Pages 65-82
  3. Planning for the Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
    2. The Wireframe

      • Josh Garverick
      Pages 85-103
    3. Capacity Planning

      • Josh Garverick
      Pages 105-120
    4. Performance Considerations

      • Josh Garverick
      Pages 121-143
    5. The Target

      • Josh Garverick
      Pages 145-167
  4. Bringing it to the Cloud

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
    2. Transition Architectures

      • Josh Garverick
      Pages 171-198
    3. Development Concepts

      • Josh Garverick
      Pages 199-221
    4. Deployment Pipelines

      • Josh Garverick
      Pages 223-249
    5. Operations and Site Reliability

      • Josh Garverick
      Pages 251-292
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 293-300

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

Reviews

“The book is useful for learning concepts and technologies related to Azure application hosting. … this is the first major book effort in this direction. It is a useful resource for the community.” (Jawwad Shamsi, Computing Reviews, June 18, 2019)

Authors and Affiliations

  • AKRON, USA

    Josh Garverick

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.

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Buying options

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

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