Azure – The Good Parts

Mark Allan (@MarkXA)

About me Freelancer on the North Coast MarkXA on everything

More dev, less ops! “Instead, we chose the cloud-native approach,

rebuilding virtually all of our technology and fundamentally changing the way we operate the company. Architecturally, we migrated from a monolithic app to hundreds of micro-services, and denormalized our data model using NoSQL databases.”

Let the cloud handle the awkard stuff Get on with the code

Azure at a glance Compute Data Analytics Web / mobile Media IoT Identity Networking Hybrid services Developer services

Compute Virtual machines Container

services• Container registry• Kubernetes

Batch

Cloud Services Scheduler Service Fabric RemoteApp

Data / storage SQL Database SQL Data

Warehouse DocumentDB Storage Redis Cache

Search Data Lake Store Data Catalog Backup StorSimple Site Recovery

Analytics HDInsight

(Hadoop) Data Lake

Analytics Log Analytics Power BI Data Factory

Event Hubs Stream Analytics Mobile

Engagement Machine Learning Cognitive

Services

Web / Mobile App Service• Web Apps• Web Jobs• Mobile Apps• API Apps• Functions

Notification Hubs API Management Logic Apps PowerApps

Media Stream Media Services

IoT IoT Hub

Identity Active Directory Multi-Factor Authentication

Networking Virtual Network VPN DNS Application

Gateway Load Balancer

ExpressRoute Traffic Manager CDN

Hybrid Service Bus Azure Stack BizTalk Services

Developer Services DevTest Lab Application Insights HockeyApp Visual Studio Team Services

The Good Parts

DocumentDB

DocumentDB NoSQL database Keyed and partitioned collections of

JSON documents Automatic indexing SQL and JavaScript querying

DocumentDB Developed cloud-first Fully managed Infinite scale Guaranteed latency Pay only for storage and throughput Integrates with HDInsight, Search,

etc

Azure Functions

Azure Functions Event triggered “nano-services” Just code (Node.js, C#, etc) and

bindings

Azure Functions Infinite scale Pay only for CPU time and memory

actually used Integrates with Queues, BLOBs,

Notification Hubs, etc

Machine Learning

Machine Learning

Cognitive Services

Cognitive Services “World’s first AI supercomputer”

Cognitive Services Vision

• Computer vision, Content moderation, Face recognition, Emotion recognition, Video processing

Speech• Text to speech, Speech to text, Speaker recognition, Custom

recognition Language

• Spell check, LUIS, Linguistic analysis, Sentiment, Translation, Language processing

Knowledge Search (Bing)

TL;DR The cloud is not just somebody else’s

computer (if you use it properly) There’s probably more in there than

you thought Cloud-first is easy, cheap and

scalable If you want a supercomputer, you’ve

got it

Free stuff azure.com/free• £125 credit to use on anything• Free tier for most services

imagine.microsoft.com• Students only• Slightly better free tier

Thank you!

Any questions?