You're reading from Azure for Architects Create secure, scalable, high-availability applications on the cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839215865

Length 698 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

ActionScript

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Jack Lee

Ritesh Modi

Rithin Skaria

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

About Azure for Architects, Third Edition

1. Getting started with Azure

2. Azure solution availability, scalability, and monitoring FREE CHAPTER

3. Design pattern – Networks, storage, messaging, and events

4. Automating architecture on Azure

5. Designing policies, locks, and tags for Azure deployments

6. Cost management for Azure solutions

7. Azure OLTP solutions

8. Architecting secure applications on Azure

9. Azure Big Data solutions

10. Serverless in Azure – Working with Azure Functions

11. Azure solutions using Azure Logic Apps, Event Grid, and Functions

12. Azure Big Data eventing solutions

13. Integrating Azure DevOps

14. Architecting Azure Kubernetes solutions

15. Cross-subscription deployments using ARM templates

16. ARM template modular design and implementation

17. Designing IoT solutions

18. Azure Synapse Analytics for architects

19. Architecting intelligent solutions

Index

Understanding Cognitive Services

Azure Cognitive Services consists of HTTP endpoints that accept requests and send responses back to the caller. Almost all requests are HTTP POST requests and consist of both a header and a body.

The provisioning of Cognitive Services generates two important artifacts that help a caller invoke an endpoint successfully. It generates an endpoint URL and a unique key.

The format of the URL is https://{azure location}.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/{cognitive type}/{version}/{sub type of service}?{query parameters}. An example URL is:

https://eastus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/vision/v2.0/ocr?language=en&detectOrientation=true

Cognitive Service is provisioned in the East US Azure region. The type of service is computer vision using version 2 and the subtype is OCR. There are generally a few subtypes for each top-level category. Lastly, there are a few query string parameters, such as language and detectOrientation. These query parameters are...