Use the Azure well-architected framework to deploy your workloads in Azure and align them with Microsoft recommended best practices. This book takes a deep dive into the five architecture elements (cost optimization, performance efficiency, operational excellence, reliability, and security) and provides practical guidance on incorporating them into your architecture. The book starts with an introduction to the relevance of the well-architectured framework and why it should form the baseline of your design decisions when deploying applications in Azure. You will learn how customers can optimize the cost of deployment in Azure and understand all aspects of implementation. The book takes you through the practices and processes to be followed to run applications smoothly and you will understand the end-to-end process of design, deployment, and monitoring. You will go through paradigms for designing environments to meet different performance demands. The book covers how to build resilient and highly available applications in Azure with a sample configuration for monitoring. And you will learn how to enable security to ensure confidentiality and integrity of workloads in Azure. After reading this book, you will know the practical nuances of designing high-performing applications in the Microsoft cloud. What You Will Learn Understand the five pillars of the well-architected framework Use tools and services to optimize cost Design for performance efficiency Deal with threat vectors in the cloud Who This Book Is For Solution architects and cloud teams in Azure

Learn about Azure DevOps services to successfully apply DevOps strategies Ê KEY FEATURESÊÊ _ Share knowledge on DevOps implementation and use of Azure DevOps services. _ Learn about Azure artifacts, dependency management, and CI/CD pipeline management. _ Manage third-party integration, Agile planning, and application lifecycle management. DESCRIPTIONÊ This book offers readers the best DevOps practices and explains how to implement various services of Azure DevOps to ensure efficiency, effectiveness, and better management of the entire software development lifecycle. This book explains each component of Azure DevOps services, their pricing models, and a quick tutorial on how to proceed with its usage. Backed with numerous examples, this book helps you implement Agile planning using Azure Boards, maintain code versioning using Azure Repos, and manage CI/CD using Azure Pipelines. You will learn how to administer the DevOps process such as managing packages using the most popular Azure Artifacts and how to run Test Plans using Azure Test Plans. You will also learn how to integrate with third-party systems. Finally, you will learn about marketplaces of extensions and how to develop your own extensions. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN _ Learn DevOps culture, practices, and habits. _ Learn to manage version control of the source code within Azure DevOps Services. _ Learn how to administer Azure DevOps services for an enterprise application lifecycle management system. _ Learn Azure DevOps services and features. WHO THIS BOOK IS FORÊÊ This book is for anyone who wishes to use or who are using Azure DevOps services, including Infrastructure engineers, Software engineers, Architects, Testers, Managers, or Product Owners. Ê TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction to Azure DevOps 2. Azure DevOps Organization 3. Azure DevOps Project 4. Azure Board 5. Azure Repos 6. Azure Pipelines 7. Azure Artifacts 8. Azure Test Plans 9. Extension Marketplace

Explore artificial intelligence offerings by Microsoft Azure, along with its other services. This book will help you implement AI features in various Azure services to help build your organization and customers. The book starts by introducing you to the Azure Cognitive Search service to create and use an application. You then will learn the built-in automatic tuning intelligence mechanism in Azure SQL Database. This is an important feature you can use to enable Azure SQL Database to optimize the performance of your queries. Next, you will go through AI services with Azure Integration Platform service and Azure Logic Apps to build a modern intelligent workflow in your application. Azure functions are discussed as a part of its server-less feature. The book concludes by teaching you how to work with Power Automate to analyze your business workflow. After reading this book, you will be able to understand and work with different Azure Cognitive Services in AI. What You Will Learn Get started with Azure Cognitive Search service Use AI services with Low Code – Power Automate Use AI services with Azure Integration services Use AI services with Azure Server-less offerings Use automatic tuning in Azure SQL database Who This Book Is For Aspiring Azure and AI professionals

Master Azure Well-Architected Framework and improve your optimization skills by enhancing the quality of your workloads Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Learn Well-Architected Framework from a cloud solution architect and an official Microsoft trainer Optimize your workloads in Azure by following Microsoft recommended best practices Use reference architecture and Microsoft tests to conduct Well-Architected Framework (WAF) assessment Book DescriptionIt’s easy to learn and deploy resources in Microsoft Azure, without worrying about resource optimization. However, for production or mission critical workloads, it’s crucial that you follow best practices for resource deployment to attain security, reliability, operational excellence and performance. Apart from these aspects, you need to account for cost considerations, as it’s the leading reason for almost every organization’s cloud transformation. In this book, you’ll learn to leverage Microsoft Well-Architected Framework to optimize your workloads in Azure. This Framework is a set of recommended practices developed by Microsoft based on five aligned pillars; cost optimization, performance, reliability, operational excellence, and security. You’ll explore each of these pillars and discover how to perform an assessment to determine the quality of your existing workloads. Through the book, you’ll uncover different design patterns and procedures related to each of the Well-Architected Framework pillars. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to collect and assess data from an Azure environment and perform the necessary upturn of your Azure workloads.What you will learn Dive deep into the Azure Well-Architected Framework Explore the differences between Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework Understand the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework Discover varied techniques to improve the cost profile of your workload Optimize your workflows using Azure Advisor and its score Plan and prioritize the implementation of security recommendations from WAF assessments Who this book is forThis book is for developers, cloud solution architects, cloud administrators, and professionals experienced in design, implementation, and management of Azure resources. Professionals looking to learn cloud optimization or switch to a new role related to architecture can benefit from this book. An intermediate level understanding of the Microsoft Azure platform and services is a must. Experience in implementing or designing solutions in Azure is a plus but not mandatory.

eResearch presents new challenges in managing data. This book explains to librarians and other information specialists what eResearch is, how it impacts library services and collections, and how to contribute to eResearch activities at their parent institutions. Today's librarians need to be technology-savvy information experts who understand how to manage datasets. Demystifying eResearch: A Primer for Librarians prepares librarians for careers that involve eResearch, clearly defining what it is and how it impacts library services and collections, explaining key terms and concepts, and explaining the importance of the field. You will come to understand exactly how the use of networked computing technologies enhances and supports collaboration and innovative methods particularly in scientific research, learn about eResearch library initiatives and best practices, and recognize the professional development opportunities that eResearch offers. This book takes the broad approach to the complex topic of eResearch and how it pertains to the library community, providing an introduction that will be accessible to readers without a background in electronic research. The author presents a conceptual overview of eResearch with real-world examples of electronic research activities to quickly increase your familiarity with eResearch and awareness of the current state of eResearch librarianship.

Break down the misconceptions of the Internet of Things by examining the different security building blocks available in Intel Architecture (IA) based IoT platforms. This open access book reviews the threat pyramid, secure boot, chain of trust, and the SW stack leading up to defense-in-depth. The IoT presents unique challenges in implementing security and Intel has both CPU and Isolated Security Engine capabilities to simplify it. This book explores the challenges to secure these devices to make them immune to different threats originating from within and outside the network. The requirements and robustness rules to protect the assets vary greatly and there is no single blanket solution approach to implement security. Demystifying Internet of Things Security provides clarity to industry professionals and provides and overview of different security solutions What You'll Learn Secure devices, immunizing them against different threats originating from inside and outside the networkGather an overview of the different security building blocks available in Intel Architecture (IA) based IoT platformsUnderstand the threat pyramid, secure boot, chain of trust, and the software stack leading up to defense-in-depth Who This Book Is For Strategists, developers, architects, and managers in the embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) space trying to understand and implement the security in the IoT devices/platforms.

Build and design multiple types of applications that are cross-language, platform, and cost-effective by understanding core Azure principles and foundational concepts Key FeaturesGet familiar with the different design patterns available in Microsoft AzureDevelop Azure cloud architecture and a pipeline management systemGet to know the security best practices for your Azure deploymentBook Description Thanks to its support for high availability, scalability, security, performance, and disaster recovery, Azure has been widely adopted to create and deploy different types of application with ease. Updated for the latest developments, this third edition of Azure for Architects helps you get to grips with the core concepts of designing serverless architecture, including containers, Kubernetes deployments, and big data solutions. You'll learn how to architect solutions such as serverless functions, you'll discover deployment patterns for containers and Kubernetes, and you'll explore large-scale big data processing using Spark and Databricks. As you advance, you'll implement DevOps using Azure DevOps, work with intelligent solutions using Azure Cognitive Services, and integrate security, high availability, and scalability into each solution. Finally, you'll delve into Azure security concepts such as OAuth, OpenConnect, and managed identities. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to design intelligent Azure solutions based on containers and serverless functions. What you will learnUnderstand the components of the Azure cloud platformUse cloud design patternsUse enterprise security guidelines for your Azure deploymentDesign and implement serverless and integration solutionsBuild efficient data solutions on AzureUnderstand container services on AzureWho this book is for If you are a cloud architect, DevOps engineer, or a developer looking to learn about the key architectural aspects of the Azure cloud platform, this book is for you. A basic understanding of the Azure cloud platform will help you grasp the concepts covered in this book more effectively.

Anyone looking to create structured data in a human-readable data format should learn YAML. This book is aimed at developers of every level, from beginner to advanced, who want to get up to date with YAML. This book is for Software Engineer, Full Stack Web Developer, DevOps Engineer, Software Architects, Managers, and Hobbist, who are wondering what YAML is? This book will introduce you to YAML markup language and covers in detail its syntax. It will also cover the basic concepts behind this markup language and explain its main features and show the capabilities of YAML.

Break down the misconceptions of the Internet of Things by examining the different security building blocks available in Intel Architecture (IA) based IoT platforms. This open access book reviews the threat pyramid, secure boot, chain of trust, and the SW stack leading up to defense-in-depth. The IoT presents unique challenges in implementing security and Intel has both CPU and Isolated Security Engine capabilities to simplify it. This book explores the challenges to secure these devices to make them immune to different threats originating from within and outside the network. The requirements and robustness rules to protect the assets vary greatly and there is no single blanket solution approach to implement security. Demystifying Internet of Things Security provides clarity to industry professionals and provides and overview of different security solutions What You'll Learn Secure devices, immunizing them against different threats originating from inside and outside the network Gather an overview of the different security building blocks available in Intel Architecture (IA) based IoT platforms Understand the threat pyramid, secure boot, chain of trust, and the software stack leading up to defense-in-depth Who This Book Is For Strategists, developers, architects, and managers in the embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) space trying to understand and implement the security in the IoT devices/platforms.

Build and deploy scalable cloud native microservices using the Spring framework and Kubernetes. KEY FEATURES ● Complete coverage on how to design, build, run, and deploy modern cloud native microservices. ● Includes numerous sample code exercises on microservices, Spring and Kubernetes. ● Develop a stronghold on Kubernetes, Spring, and the microservices architecture. ● Complete guide of application containerization on Kubernetes containers. ● Coverage on managing modern applications and infrastructure using observability tools. DESCRIPTION The main objective of this book is to give an overview of cloud native microservices, their architecture, design patterns, best practices, real use cases and practical coverage of modern applications. This book covers a strong understanding of the fundamentals of microservices, API first approach, Testing, observability, API Gateway, Service Mesh and Kubernetes alternatives of Spring Cloud. This book covers the implementation of various design patterns of developing cloud native microservices using Spring framework docker and Kubernetes libraries. It covers containerization concepts and hands-on lab exercises like how to build, run and manage microservices applications using Kubernetes. After reading this book, the readers will have a holistic understanding of building, running, and managing cloud native microservices applications on Kubernetes containers. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Learn fundamentals of microservice and design patterns. ● Learn microservices development using Spring Boot and Kubernetes. ● Learn to develop reactive, event-driven, and batch microservices. ● Perform end-to-end microservices testing using Cucumber. ● Implement API gateway,authentication & authorization,load balancing, caching, rate limiting. ● Learn observability and monitoring techniques of microservices. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is for the Spring Developers, Microservice Developers, Cloud Engineers, DevOps Consultants, Technical Architect and Solution Architects, who have some familiarity with application development, Docker and Kubernetes containers. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Overview of Cloud Native microservices 2. Microservice design patterns 3. API first approach 4. Build microservices using the Spring Framework 5. Batch microservices 6. Build reactive and event-driven microservices 7. The API gateway, security, and distributed caching with Redis 8. Microservices testing and API mocking 9. Microservices observability 10. Containers and Kubernetes overview and architecture 11. Run microservices on Kubernetes 12. Service Mesh and Kubernetes alternatives of Spring Cloud