Preface

Have you ever visited a large city on your own? Sometimes you get lost, and sometimes you lose time. However, you can make your trip more valuable by taking an expert-guided tour. That's what this book is: an expert-guided tour of Azure. Our different maps will be your compass to sail the broad Azure landscape. The Microsoft cloud platform offers a wide range of services, providing a million ways to architect your solutions. This book uses original maps and expert analysis to help you explore Azure and choose the best solutions for your unique requirements. Beyond maps, the book is inspired by real-world situations and challenges. We will share typical and cross-industry concerns to help you become a better Azure architect. Our real-world-inspired architecture diagrams and use cases should put you in a better position to tackle your own challenges. Although an architecture role may be high-level, we also wanted to dive deeper into some topics and make you work harder on some use cases. In this respect, you will have some hands-on work to do too. However, our primary objective is to make you stronger in the various architecture disciplines that are scoped to Azure and that every Azure architect should be comfortable with.