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Architecting Distributed Cloud Applications

8/28/2017, Mva

This technology-agnostic course begins by explaining the benefits of distributed cloud applications with an emphasis on maintaining high-availability and scalability in a...
Cloud Application Architecture Guide

12/8/2017, Ebook

This guide presents a structured approach for designing cloud applications that are scalable, resilient, and highly available. The guidance in this ebook is intended to help...
Toppling Ivory Towers - Architecting and building hyper-scale solutions with Azure

2/10/2017, Video, 0:56:41

One of the benefits of cloud technology that is only just being realised is the greatly reduced risk profile and timelines it enables when designing and delivering robust,...
Cloud Design Patterns

9/23/2015, Ebook

This guide contains twenty-four design patterns and ten related guidance topics that articulate the benefits of applying patterns by showing how each piece can fit into the...
The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure, Second Edition

12/8/2017, Ebook

We created The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure to help you on your journey to the cloud, whether you’re just considering making the move, or you’ve already decided and...
Understanding Azure - A Guide for Developers

5/20/2016, Ebook

This guide breaks down the “why” and “how” for scenarios suited to the cloud with a focus on building apps using platform services available in Microsoft Azure. The second...

Latest Content

Date	Title
4/19/2018	4/19/2018 Containers for Existing .NET Apps Part 1 Ch9: VS Toolbox [0:29:52] This is the first of a two part series where Robert is joined by Aditi Dugar, who shows how and why you can modernize existing .NET applications by containerizing them and moving them to the...
4/18/2018	4/18/2018 Simple Understanding of Skype for Business Databases Howdy, in the journey of moving my old articles from Lyncdude.com to this blog I decided to include this one in the migration about let’s say Skype for Business databases anatomy, I’ll be talking...
3/23/2018	3/23/2018 Microsoft Premier Workshop: System Center Operations Manager: Configuration and Administration Beschreibung Der dreitägige Workshop vermittelt neuen Administratoren die Grundkonzepte des Microsoft System Center 2016 Operations Manager. Dies geschieht über eine Kombination aus Vorträgen und...
3/20/2018	3/20/2018 Changing the License Type for an existing Virtual Machine Scale Set to use the Azure Hybrid Use Benefit CSA Blog If you’re an enterprise customer that has existing Windows Server licenses that you want to use in Azure, you can take advantage of Azure Hybrid Use Benefit to bring those licenses to the cloud....
3/15/2018	3/15/2018 ASP.NET MVC 5 with BDD ,Onion/Clean Architecture, Living documentation and a CI/CD pipeline from scratch To give you a little background, I was toying with an idea for a startup and wrote a quick application in ASP.NET as a POC for exploring a product idea (Reconcilation ) .Although I left the idea...
3/8/2018	3/8/2018 Azure Development… and Data? — Architect your Data Story in the Cloud! (Content Spotlight) First, I want to take a look into the Azure Application Architecture Guide (A3G): http://aka.ms/A3G This is an Azure architecture guide (like a menu of what to use when) for developers! Today I...
3/1/2018	3/1/2018 Query ASR Replicated Item Status using Powershell CSA Blog In this short blog post, I am going to show how to query the status of replicated items in an Azure Site Recovery (ASR) vault. My objective for this post is to share some of the details of ASR...
2/25/2018	2/25/2018 Azure IoT Reference Architecture All you need is to download this PDF Microsoft Azure IoT services- Reference Architecture Namoskar!!!
2/23/2018	2/23/2018 Cost Optimization on Azure CSA Blog Cost is always a concern with customers when it comes to the cloud. I've had a number of conversations with customers lately around how they can take advantage of various offers and benefits on...
2/21/2018	2/21/2018 Azure Container Instances – Test Post Introducing Azure Container Instances Concepts: Container Solutions in Azure Where does Azure Container Instance fit in? What is Azure Container Instance? Understanding the moving parts of the...
2/15/2018	2/15/2018 Azure Data Architecture Guide (ADAG) James Serra's Blog The Azure Data Architecture Guide has just been released! Check it out: http://aka.ms/ADAG Think of it as a menu or syllabus for data professionals. What service should you use, why, and when...
2/10/2018	2/10/2018 Enterprise Bot Architecture Summary Many organizations are seeing the productivity gains of utilizing bots across the enterprise. In many cases a department will create a bot as a proof of concept that turns out to be a...

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Web Content

Azure Documentation

1. Azure Architecture Center
2. Azure Cloud Adoption Guide
     2.1. Foundational Adoption Stage
3. Application Architecture Guide
     3.1. Architecture styles
     3.2. Technology choices
     3.3. Design principles
     3.4. Pillars of software quality
     3.5. Design patterns
4. Data Architecture Guide
5. Reference Architectures
     5.1. App Service web applications
     5.2. Hybrid networks
     5.3. Identity management
     5.4. Jenkins server
     5.5. Network DMZ
     5.6. SAP NetWeaver and SAP HANA
     5.7. SharePoint Server 2016
     5.8. VM workloads (Linux)
     5.9. VM workloads (Windows)
6. Cloud Design Patterns
     6.1. Availability patterns
     6.2. Data management patterns
     6.3. Design and Implementation patterns
     6.4. Management and Monitoring patterns
     6.5. Messaging patterns
     6.6. Performance and scalability patterns
     6.7. Resiliency patterns
     6.8. Security patterns
7. Best Practices
     7.1. API design
     7.2. API implementation
     7.3. Autoscaling
     7.4. Background jobs
     7.5. Caching
     7.6. Content Delivery Network
     7.7. Data partitioning
     7.8. Monitoring and diagnostics
     7.9. Naming conventions
     7.10. Transient fault handling
     7.11. Retry guidance for specific services
8. Performance Antipatterns
     8.1. Busy Database
     8.2. Busy Front End
     8.3. Chatty I/O
     8.4. Extraneous Fetching
     8.5. Improper Instantiation
     8.6. Monolithic Persistence
     8.7. No Caching
     8.8. Synchronous I/O
9. Design Review Checklists
     9.1. Availability
     9.2. DevOps
     9.3. Resiliency (general)
     9.4. Resiliency (Azure services)
     9.5. Scalability
10. Design for Resiliency
     10.1. Designing resilient applications
     10.2. Resiliency checklist
     10.3. Failure mode analysis
11. Scenario guides
     11.1. Azure for AWS Professionals
     11.2. Manage Identity in Multitenant Applications
     11.3. Migrate from Cloud Services to Service Fabric
     11.4. Refactor an Azure Service Fabric Application migrated from Azure Cloud Services
     11.5. Extend Azure Resource Manager Template Functionality
12. Resources
     12.1. Azure Roadmap
     12.2. Microsoft Trust Center for Azure
     12.3. Icons and diagrams
     12.4. Calendar of Azure updates
     12.5. Training
     12.6. SQLCAT blog
     12.7. AzureCAT blog
     12.8. White papers

Web Pages

Content	Type
Architecture Design Session on SAP on Azure	Event
Reference architecture for running a Jenkins server on Azure	Webpage
Cloud Application Architecture Guide	Ebook
The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure, Second Edition	Ebook
Azure WebApps - Deployment Slots Architecture	Whitepaper
Azure Architecture Center	Website
Understanding Azure - A Guide for Developers	Ebook
Azure IoT Reference Architecture	Whitepaper
Cloud Design Patterns	Ebook
Building Mission Critical Systems Using Cloud Platform Services	Whitepaper

Online Training Content

Date	Title
8/28/2017	Architecting Distributed Cloud Applications This technology-agnostic course begins by explaining the benefits of distributed cloud applications with an emphasis on maintaining high-availability and scalability in a cost-effective way while also dealing with inevitable hardware and software failures. Then, the course moves on to: Microservices and containers Networking communication Messaging...
1/13/2015	Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Are you preparing for Exam 70-534: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions? Want to create public and hybrid cloud solutions? Take your web development skills to the next level, in this practical and informative event.Experts Michael Withrow, Ranger Due, Brett Hacker, Walter Myers, Cale Teeter, and R

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Title

8/28/2017

Architecting Distributed Cloud Applications

This technology-agnostic course begins by explaining the benefits of distributed cloud applications with an emphasis on maintaining high-availability and scalability in a cost-effective way while also dealing with inevitable hardware and software failures. Then, the course moves on to: Microservices and containers Networking communication Messaging...

1/13/2015

Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions

Are you preparing for Exam 70-534: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions? Want to create public and hybrid cloud solutions? Take your web development skills to the next level, in this practical and informative event.Experts Michael Withrow, Ranger Due, Brett Hacker, Walter Myers, Cale Teeter, and R

Tools

Tool	Description	Author

Videos

Date	Title	Length
4/19/2018	Containers for Existing .NET Apps Part 1 Ch9: VS Toolbox This is the first of a two part series where Robert is joined by Aditi Dugar, who shows how and why you can modernize existing .NET applications by containerizing them and moving them to the cloud. This brings significant deployment...	0:29:52
12/18/2017	Enable Edge Computing with Azure IoT Edge Azure Power Lunch Learn about Azure IoT Edge, a dynamic software platform that delivers cloud services to edge devices, making hybrid cloud and edge IoT solutions a reality. Azure IoT Edge enables easy orchestration between code and services, so they...	1:01:00
12/12/2017	Cloud Tech 10 - 11th December 2017 - Kubernetes, cloud-init, Cloud Foundry and more! CloudTechTV Like keeping up with Azure but struggling to find enough time? Then this is the video for you! I'm Mark Whitby, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft UK. Each week, I cover what's happening with Microsoft Azure in just 10 minutes, or...	0:07:22
11/21/2017	Cybersecurity Reference Architecture & Strategies: How to Plan for and Implement a Cybersecurity Strategy Taste of Premier Planning and implementing a security strategy to protect a hybrid of on-premises and cloud assets against advanced cybersecurity threats is one of the greatest challenges facing information security organizations today.Join Lex Thomas...	0:33:49
9/28/2017	Implement microservices patterns with .NET Core and Docker containers YT: Ignite This session shows how to implement with .NET Core an end-to-end application based on microservice architecture patterns and Docker containers. It focuses on the microservice’s challenges and how to solve them by implementing patterns...	0:46:21
9/27/2017	Patterns, Architecture, & Best Practices: Scaling Machine Learning Algorithms with Azure YT: Ignite In this talk, we will talk about the patterns, reference architecture, and best practices when scaling your machine learning algorithms in Azure. More specifically, we will talk about:_x000D_ i. Typical reference architecture and demo...	1:09:20
9/21/2017	Deployment Techniques and Linux Containers with .NET Core 2.0 Microsoft's move to make .NET open source could not have come at a better time. As the world explores and moves to Microservices Architecture (MSA) and Linux containers, .NET stands poised to not only join the fray, but to excel with...	0:53:32
9/18/2017	Getting Started With Terraform And Azure - Part 1 https://terraform.ioTerraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.	0:06:36
9/12/2017	Deployment Techniques and Linux Containers with .NET Core 2.0 .NET Conf 2017 Microsoft's move to make .NET open source could not have come at a better time. As the world explores and moves to Microservices Architecture (MSA) and Linux containers, .NET stands poised to not only join the fray, but to excel with...	0:53:31
9/11/2017	Enterprise HDInsight Monitoring with Operations Management Suite Data Exposed This week's episode of Data Exposed Scott welcomes Ashish Thapliyal to the show. Ashish is a Senior PM on the HDInsight team and is in the studio today to discuss monitoring HDInsight for the enterprise with the Operations Management...	0:26:58

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