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Architecting applications on Azure

Best practices and patterns for building applications on Microsoft Azure:

Design for the cloud

• Principles of a well-designed application
• Best practices in cloud applications
• Responsible engineering
• Application design patterns
• Architect multitenant solutions on Azure
• Build microservices on Azure

Optimize your workload

• Guiding tenets for your architecture
• Examine your workload
• Performance tuning
• Performance antipatterns
• Secure your workload

Choose the right technology

• Choose a compute service
• Choose a Kubernetes at the edge option
• Choose a data store
• Choose a load-balancing service
• Choose a messaging service

Essential scenarios

• Architecture for startups
• Azure and Power Platform solutions
• Azure and Microsoft 365 solutions
• AWS to Azure services comparison
• Google Cloud services comparison

Technology areas

Explore architectures and guides for different technologies.

Popular articles

• Baseline OpenAI end-to-end chat architecture
• AWS to Azure services comparison
• AKS production baseline
• Google Cloud to Azure services comparison
• Cloud design patterns
• CQRS design pattern
• Best practices in cloud applications
• Web API design
• Choose your Azure compute service
• Application architecture fundamentals
• Hub-spoke network topology
• Architect multitenant solutions on Azure

AI & Machine Learning

• Baseline OpenAI end-to-end chat architecture
• AI architecture design
• Conversational bot
• Machine learning options
• Natural language processing
• Azure AI services options
• Team Data Science Process

Analytics

• Analytics architecture design
• Choose an analytical data store in Azure
• Choose a data analytics technology in Azure
• Analytics end-to-end with Azure Synapse
• Automated enterprise BI with Azure Data Factory
• Stream processing with Azure Databricks
• Databricks monitoring
• Real-time fraud detection
• Predict the length of stay in hospitals

Databases

• Databases architecture design
• Big Data architectures
• Build a scalable system for massive data
• Choose a data store
• Extract, transform, and load (ETL)
• Online analytical processing (OLAP)
• Online transaction processing (OLTP)
• Data lakes

DevOps

• Advanced ARM templates
• DevOps with containers

Enterprise integration

• Basic enterprise integration
• Enterprise BI with SQL Data Warehouse
• Enterprise integration with queues and events

High-performance computing (HPC)

• Computer-aided engineering
• HPC video rendering
• Introduction to HPC on Azure

Identity

• Identity in multitenant applications
• Choose an Active Directory integration architecture
• Integrate on-premises AD with Microsoft Entra ID
• Extend AD DS to Azure
• Create an AD DS forest in Azure
• Extend AD FS to Azure

Internet of Things (IoT)

• IoT architecture
• Automotive IoT data

Microservices

• Domain analysis
• Tactical DDD
• Identify microservice boundaries
• Design a microservices architecture
• Monitor microservices in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• CI/CD for microservices
• CI/CD for microservices on Kubernetes
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Service Fabric
• Introduction to microservices on Azure

Networking

• Choose a hybrid network architecture
• ExpressRoute
• ExpressRoute with VPN failover
• Troubleshoot a hybrid VPN connection
• Hub-spoke topology
• Implement a secure hybrid network
• Highly available network virtual appliances
• Segment virtual networks

Serverless applications

• Code walkthrough
• Serverless event processing
• Serverless web application
• Introduction to serverless applications on Azure

Virtual machine (VM) workloads

• Linux VM deployment
• Windows VM deployment
• N-tier application with Cassandra (Linux)
• Multi-region N-tier application
• WordPress on virtual machines

SAP

• Overview
• SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances)
• SAP HANA scale-up on Linux
• SAP NetWeaver in Windows on Azure
• SAP S/4HANA in Linux on Azure
• SAP BW/4HANA in Linux on Azure
• SAP deployment using an Oracle database

Web apps

• Basic web application
• Baseline zone-redundant web application
• Multi-region deployment
• E-commerce API management
• E-commerce product search
• Publish internal APIs externally
• Securely managed web application
• Highly available web application

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