Preface

Azure is a Microsoft public cloud computing provider. It provides a range of cloud services including compute, network, storage, and analytics. Users will continue their journey in building cloud-oriented applications using serverless and event-driven technologies in Azure. , they will integrate their application with relational or non-relational databases and use Database-as-a-Service in Azure and build a CI/CD pipeline with Docker containers on Azure.

To remain competitive in the market and deliver software at a faster rate and reduced cost, companies with stable, legacy systems and growing volumes of data are modernizing their applications and accelerating innovation. However, many businesses struggle to meet modernization demands. This book will help you to build secure and reliable cloud-based applications on Azure using examples, and show you how to connect them to databases in order to overcome the application modernization challenges. The book will walk you through the different services in Azure, namely, Azure API Management using the gateway pattern, event-driven architecture, Event Grid, Azure Event Hubs, Azure message queues, Function-as-a-Service using Azure Functions, and the database-oriented cloud. At every step along the way, you’ll learn about creating, importing, and managing APIs and Service Fabric in Azure, and how to ensure continuous integration and deployment in Azure to fully automate the software delivery process (the build and release process).