Hardening Azure applications. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Suren Machiraju, Suraj Gaurav.
• Authors: Machiraju, Suren; Gaurav, Suraj
• Contents: At a Glance; Introduction; Chapter 1: Introducing the Cloud Computing Platform; Cloud and Platform; Relevance of the Cloud Platform; Cloud Platform Benefits; Your Application and Cloud Platform Matchup; Does Your Application Belong on the Cloud Platform?; Is Cloud Platform Ready for Your Enterprise-Class Application?; On-premises and Cloud Platform Integration; Heterogeneity of the Cloud Platform; Trust and Security; Cloud Platform Services; Compute Services; Networking; Storage and Data Services; Databases; Storage; Cache; Analytics; App Services. Authorization and Authentication via Active Directory Messaging; Monitoring; Other Services; Summary; Chapter 2: Cloud Applications; Cloud Application and Platforms; What's aaS?; Platform Types; Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS); Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS); Software-as-a-Service (SaaS); Other Cloud Application Platforms; Cloud Web Services; Cloud Managed Services; Cloud Application Deployment Models; Public Cloud Platform; Private Cloud; Hybrid Cloud; Summary; Chapter 3: Hardened Cloud Applications; Hardened Applications; Hello World vs. Real World? Real-World and Hardened Applications Availability; Financially-backed SLAs; Reliability; Scalability; Recoverability; Security; Low Latency; Modern Organization; Engineering; DevOps Model; Continuous Deployment; Support; Summary; Chapter 4: Service Fundamentals: Instrumentation, Telemetry, and Monitoring; Instrumentation ; Best practices for Designing the Instrumentation ; High-value and High-volume Data ; Event Tracing ; Azure Diagnostics ; Telemetry ; Best Practices for Designing Telemetry ; Monitoring ; Typical Monitoring Solutions. Best Practices for Designing Monitoring Vendor and Third-Party Solutions ; Summary; Chapter 5: Key Application Experiences: Latency, Scalability, and Throughput; Latency ; Factors That Affect Latency ; Best Practices; Keep Everything in Memory; Co-locate Data and Processing ; Batch the Calls ; Underutilize ; Sequential Reads ; Cache Data ; Asynchronous Calls ; Parallelize ; Perform Latency Tests ; Do Not Over-Engineer; Scalability ; Scaling Up ; Scaling Out ; Best Practices; Scale Out Not Up ; Partition by Function ; Sharding-Horizontal Split ; Stateless Service. Avoid Distributed Transactions Consider Cache ; Consider Asynchronous ; Throughput ; Best Practices; Avoid Chatty Interfaces ; Avoid Long-Running Atomic Transactions; Resource Throttling ; Use Cache ; Choice of Programming Languages ; Summary; Chapter 6: Failures and Their Inevitability; Case Studies of Major Cloud Service Failures; Azure Blob Storage Failure ; Amazon Web Services Failure ; Measuring Failures; Failure Categories; Hard Failure ; Soft Failure; Gray Failures; Preparing for Failure; Design for Failure and a Quick Recovery; Minimizing Human Error ; Infinite Loop.
• Publisher Details: California : Apress
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, color illustrations
• Subjects: 005.75/85; Computer science; Cloud computing; Web applications; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- SQL; Cloud computing; Web applications; Computer Science; Computer Science, general; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Computers -- Hardware -- General; Computers -- Software Development & Engineering -- General; Computer networking & communications; Software Engineering; Microsoft software; Microsoft .NET Framework; Computer network architectures; Software engineering; Computers -- Programming -- Microsoft Programming; Microsoft programming; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781484209202; 1484209206; 1484209230; 9781484209233
• Related ISBNs: 9781484209233
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed June 8, 2015).
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