Название: Learning Microsoft Azure: Cloud Computing and Development Fundamentals (Final)
Автор: Jonah Carrio Andersson
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2024
Страниц: 480
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.3 MB

If your organization plans to modernize services and move to the cloud from legacy software or a private cloud on premises, this book is for you. Software developers, solution architects, cloud engineers, and anybody interested in cloud technologies will learn fundamental concepts for cloud computing, migration, transformation, and development using Microsoft Azure.

Author and Microsoft MVP Jonah Carrio Andersson guides you through cloud computing concepts and deployment models, the wide range of modern cloud technologies, application development with Azure, team collaboration services, security services, and cloud migration options in Microsoft Azure.

You'll gain insight into the Microsoft Azure cloud services that you can apply in different business use cases, software development projects, and modern solutions in the cloud. You'll also become fluent with Azure cloud migration services, serverless computing technologies that help your development team work productively, Azure IoT, and Azure cognitive services that make your application smarter. This book also provides real-world advice and best practices based on the author's own Azure migration experience.

• Gain insight into which Azure cloud service best suits your company's particular needs
• Understand how to use Azure for different use cases and specific technical requirements
• Start developing cloud services, applications, and solutions in the Azure environment
• Learn how to migrate existing legacy applications to Microsoft Azure

Logically, the book starts with covering the fundamentals, including what the cloud is and what the Azure cloud is. Through my experience, I have seen that nontechnical business leaders need to understand these foundational concepts in order to map their business needs to the benefits a cloud migration can offer. Beyond business leaders, everyone in a company focusing on cloud should read the first part of the book to lessen the gap between technical and nontechnical backgrounds. Strategically, all companies need to appreciate that the lofty goals of AI, ML, Big Data, and IoT, which are covered in Part III, stand on the foundations of Azure laid out in Part II of the book. Accordingly, focusing on your fundamental technical understanding is pivotal to building the future cloud services that will win business in a competitive marketplace. Using the cloud instead of traditional IT will quite likely lead to good results, but there is no guarantee that they will be great. Rather, greatness comes from how you use the cloud and what tools you employ to make your cloud usage truly effective. This includes practices like automation, autoscaling, and effective operations, to name a few. Part IV dives into the practices that take you from a good cloud to a great cloud, and Part V completes the cloud tour with the tools that are not only in the cloud but are needed to complement the cloud so you can take optimal and full advantage of the power of the cloud.

Who Should Read This Book:
This book is an essential learning reference book for anybody who wants to learn about the vital cloud concepts and cloud computing services provided by Microsoft Azure, regardless if you are a beginner or at an intermediate level in this field. The content of this book will also help you gain the technical knowledge to plan, design, and develop applications and modern technological solutions and migrate existing workloads and systems to the cloud using Azure.
This book is for anybody with a technical background with career roles like software developers, cloud engineers, or cloud solution architects. Management or leadership roles in an IT organization, such as IT project managers, technical sales managers, and scrum masters, would also benefit from learning the concepts of cloud computing in Azure. Also, teams working with traditional and on-premises legacy applications or systems will gain essential insight into designing and developing solutions in the cloud platform through the Microsoft Azure service.
This book is also ideal for IT professionals, software developers, and aspiring cloud engineers who want to earn Microsoft Certifications for Azure, such as AZ-900, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals; AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure, AZ-400, Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions; and AZ-305, Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.