robbell / azure-deep-dive

My Azure Deep Dive course material from the ASOS Emerging Talent Bootcamp

Azure Deep Dive

My Azure Deep Dive course material from the ASOS Emerging Talent Bootcamp.

Prerequisites

• .NET Core 2.1 SDK - Download
• Azure CLI 2.0 - Download
• Contributor access to an Azure subscription

Course outline

Part 1 - Azure resources

• Why use the cloud?
  • "Cloud computing is just using somebody else's computers"
  • "Information technology as a utility, not a burden"
  • Availability
  • Flexibility
  • Security
  • Maintenance
  • Other reasons:
    • Intelligent services
    • AI
    • Planet-scale databases
• Why Azure?
  • Familiarity
  • Cost
  • Resources
  • Customer examples
  • Vs. other cloud providers: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-vs-aws/
• Azure resources overview
  • Compute options
  • Database options
  • Service Bus
    • Messaging vs direct calls: https://blogs.mulesoft.com/dev/connectivity-dev/why-messaging-queues-suck/
  • Azure Resource Manager
    • https://resources.azure.com
• Labs
  • Cosmos DB
  • Service Bus

Part 2 - Architecting for the cloud

• Intro
• Common cloud patterns and the problems they solve
  • General, repeatable solutions to commonly occurring problems
  • Queue-based load levelling
  • Competing consumers
  • Caching
    • Cache aside vs read-through cache vs write-through cache: http://www.ehcache.org/documentation/3.5/caching-patterns.html
  • Materialised views
  • Sharding
  • Circuit breaker
  • Microsoft's cloud patterns book: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/
  • Azure developer's guide: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/campaigns/developer-guide/?v=18.31
  • High Scalability blog: http://highscalability.com/
• Architecture breakout sessions
• Wrap up and questions