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Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns

You're reading from   Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns Implement efficient design patterns for data management, high availability, monitoring and other popular patterns on your Azure Cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788393362
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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PaaS II (Azure Service Fabric, also known as Azure microservices)

Azure Service Fabric is a PaaS offer for distributed systems that simplifies the packing, provisioning, and management of scalable and reliable microservices. Before we start with a deep analysis, we should deal with the microservice architecture in general.

Let's take a look at the first diagram:

Core elements of this architecture are the services (or microservices). The services are defined by the following characteristics:

  • A service is small, which means a service offers only one function in contrast to the application with many functions.
  • A service is independent. This has several meanings for our work:
    • Each service has a separate code base, and this without the need to share the same technology stack, libraries, or frameworks. You can use, for example, C# for the first, Java for the second, and a JavaScript...
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Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns
Published in: Jan 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788393362
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