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

Azure Cognitive Services

Azure provides an umbrella service known as Azure Cognitive Services. Azure Cognitive Services is a set of services that developers can consume within their applications to turn them into intelligent applications.

Table 19.1: Azure Cognitive Services

The services have been divided into five main categories depending on their nature. These five categories are as follows:

Vision

This API provides algorithms for image classification and helps in image processing by providing meaningful information. Computer vision can provide a variety of information from images on different objects, people, characters, emotions, and more.

Search

These APIs help in search-related applications. They help with search based on text, images, video, and providing custom search options.

Language

These APIs are based on natural language processing and help extract information about the intent of user-submitted text along with entity detection...