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This book provides practical guidance for adopting a high velocity, continuous delivery process to create reliable, scalable, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions that are designed and built using a microservice architecture, deployed to the Azure cloud, and managed through automation. Microservices, IoT, and Azure offers software developers, architects, and operations engineers´ step-by-step directions for building SaaS applications-applications that are available 24x7, work on any device, scale elastically, and are resilient to change--through code, script, exercises, and a working reference implementation.

The book provides a working definition of microservices and contrasts this approach with traditional monolithic Layered Architecture. A fictitious, homebiomedical startup is used to demonstrate microservice architecture and automation capabilities for cross-cutting and business services as well as connected device scenarios for Internet of Things (IoT). Several Azure PaaS services are detailed including Storage, SQL Database, DocumentDb, Redis Cache, Cloud Services, Web API´s, API Management, IoT Hub, IoT Suite, Event Hub, and Stream Analytics. Finally the book looks to the future and examines Service Fabric to see how microservices are becoming the de facto approach to building reliable software in the cloud.

In this book, you´ll learn:

What microservices are and why are they´re a compelling architecture pattern for SaaS applications
How to design, develop, and deploy microservices using Visual Studio, PowerShell, and Azure
Microservice patterns for cross-cutting concerns and business capabilities
Microservice patterns for Internet of Things and big data analytics solutions using IoT Hub, Event Hub, and Stream Analytics
Techniques for automating microservice provisioning, building, and deployment
What Service Fabric is and how it´s the future direction for microservices on Microsoft Azure

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1 From Monolithic to Microservice

2 What is a Microservice?

3 Microservice Architecture

4 Azure - A Microservice Platform

5 Automation

6 Microservice Reference Implementation

7 IoT and Microservices

8 Service Fabric

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Bob Familiar is the Practice Director, Cloud & Services at BlueMetal, Inc. Bob Familiar has been in the software industry for 29 years having worked for both ISVs such as Dunn & Bradstreet Software and ON Technology and for Microsoft as a Principal Consultant, Architect Evangelist and Director of Technology Evangelism. Bob holds a Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern and a patent for Object Relational Database and Distributed Computing. In 2016 Blue Metal was named Microsoft´s IoT Worldwide Partner of the Year: bit ly 2dKXE3h

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