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  1. Architecting Distributed Cloud Applications
    8/28/2017, Trainings
    This technology-agnostic course begins by explaining the benefits of distributed cloud applications with an emphasis on maintaining high-availability and scalability in a...
  2. 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...
  3. 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,...
  4. 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...
  5. 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...

Architecture News

Azure architecture framework: How to leverage it to improve your workloads | THR2365
1/14/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Ignite [0:14:35]
Evaluate your workload against the five pillars of the Azure architecture framework (resiliency, scalability, cost, security, and operations). Come learn how you can leverage this powerful...
Architecture blueprints for Microsoft Power BI implementation | THR3000
1/14/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Ignite [0:23:26]
Implementing a Power BI solution is not just about the report development, dashboard design, and DAX queries. Designing the right architecture is an essential part of a Power BI implementation....
SQL Server 2019 big data clusters: Architecture deployment and security | BRK3022
1/14/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Ignite [0:47:10]
The SQL Server 2019 big data cluster platform provides a scalable and enterprise ready technology that can handle data of any sort. Next to the native support for R, Python, Spark, SQL, and HDFS,...
Identity Architecture: Legacy authentication | Azure Active Directory
12/23/2019, YouTube: Microsoft Azure [0:06:33]
In this series, we will go over how legacy authentication works, discuss the flow of legacy authentication from start to finish using federation with Azure AD, and cover legacy authentication...
Episode 309 - Azure at Scale
12/22/2019, Azure Podcast
Paulo Renato, a Principal Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft works with large GISVs and he tells us about the massive scale to which these customers have to consume Azure and how best to...
Identity Architecture: Conditional access with device controls | Azure Active Directory
12/20/2019, YouTube: Microsoft Azure [0:04:27]
In this series, we will go over how legacy authentication works, discuss the flow of legacy authentication from start to finish using federation with Azure AD, and cover legacy authentication...
Identity Architecture: Conditional access with Azure MFA | Azure Active Directory
12/19/2019, YouTube: Microsoft Azure [0:04:04]
In this series, we will go over how legacy authentication works, discuss the flow of legacy authentication from start to finish using federation with Azure AD, and cover legacy authentication...
Finastra “did not expect the low RPO” of Azure Site Recovery DR
11/19/2019, Microsoft Azure Blog
Today’s question and answer style post covers an interview between Siddharth Deekshit, Program Manager, Azure Site Recovery engineering and Bryan Heymann, Head of Cloud Architecture, Finastra....
Identity Architecture: Federated Authentication | Azure Active Directory
11/14/2019, YouTube: Microsoft Azure [0:06:42]
In this video, learn how to help customers understand Federated Authentication. For Federated customers, all the servers in the federation infrastructure are in the critical path, and customers...
Identity Architecture: PHS and PTA Authentication | Azure Active Directory
11/13/2019, YouTube: Microsoft Azure [0:07:24]
In this video, learn how to help customers get started with Password Hash Synchronization (PHS). PHS as a form of authentication is simple and does not require a complex on-prem infrastructure,...
Identity Architecture: Password Hash Synchronization | Azure Active Directory
11/12/2019, YouTube: Microsoft Azure [0:06:25]
In this video, learn how to help customers get started with Password Hash Synchronization (PHS). PHS can be thought of in two ways, as a synchronization method and as a form of...
Azure architecture framework: How to leverage it to improve your workloads
11/6/2019, Ignite 2019 [0:20:00]
Evaluate your workload against the five pillars of the Azure architecture framework (resiliency, scalability, cost, security, and operations). Come learn how you can leverage this powerful...
Architecture blueprints for Microsoft Power BI implementation (Repeat)
11/5/2019, Ignite 2019 [0:20:00]
Implementing a Power BI solution is not just about the report development, dashboard design, and DAX queries. Designing the right architecture is an essential part of a Power BI implementation....
SQL Server 2019 big data clusters: Architecture, deployment, and security
11/5/2019, Ignite 2019 [0:45:00]
The SQL Server 2019 big data cluster platform provides a scalable and enterprise ready technology that can handle data of any sort. Next to the native support for R, Python, Spark, SQL, and HDFS,...
Architecture blueprints for Microsoft Power BI implementation
11/5/2019, Ignite 2019 [0:20:00]
Implementing a Power BI solution is not just about the report development, dashboard design, and DAX queries. Designing the right architecture is an essential part of a Power BI implementation....
Re-designing Modern Workplace adoption – A new perspective
11/5/2019, Ignite 2019 [0:20:00]
The Microsoft 365 suite enables an organization to collaborate, communicate and manage information in a more effective way. At the same time, many organizations need some assistance in adopting...
Azure architecture framework: How to leverage it to improve your workloads
11/5/2019, Ignite 2019 [0:20:00]
Evaluate your workload against the five pillars of the Azure architecture framework (resiliency, scalability, cost, security, and operations). Come learn how you can leverage this powerful...
Microsoft Stream under the hood: Architecture, administration, and compliance
11/5/2019, Ignite 2019 [0:45:00]
Join this session to hear about new administration and compliance features that help organizations manage their video content. Plus, learn about Stream architecture, data management and Office...
Tour of the Developer Architecture Center
11/5/2019, Ignite 2019 [0:09:00]
Get an exclusive tour of the Developer Architecture Center at Ignite.
SAP on Azure–Designing for Efficiency and Operations
10/17/2019, Microsoft Azure Blog
Robust SAP on Azure Architectures are built on the pillars of Security, Performance and Scalability, Availability and Recoverability, and Efficiency and Operations. Within this blog we will a...