Section 2: Application Development, Data, and Security

Building cloud and cloud-native solutions means that you must be able to deal with heavily distributed architectures. We will guide you through some typical distributed patterns and how the ecosystem (Azure, K8s) can help you achieve more and better results. Building solutions does not solely mean building applications. It may also refer to pure data solutions, which you need to extract valuable insights and to help decision-makers make informed decisions. We will review the numerous data services and shed some light on how to combine traditional and modern data practices in Azure. Finally, whatever you build, it should be secure, so we will also focus on this very important dimension: security in the cloud.

We will cover the following topics in this section:

• Chapter 5, Application Architecture
• Chapter 6, Data Architecture
• Chapter 7, Security Architecture