Summary

There are numerous services available on Azure, and most of them can be combined to create real solutions. This chapter explained the three most important services provided by Azure—regions, storage, and networks. They form the backbone of the majority of solutions deployed on any cloud. This chapter provided details about these services and how their configuration and provisioning can affect design decisions.

Important considerations for both storage and networks were detailed in this chapter. Both networks and storage provide lots of choices, and it is important to choose an appropriate configuration based on your requirements.

Finally, some of the important design patterns related to messaging, such as Competing Consumers, Priority Queue, and Load Leveling, were described. Patterns such as CQRS and Throttling were illustrated, and other patterns, such as Retry and Circuit Breaker, were also discussed. We will keep these patterns as the baseline when we deploy...