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The Azure Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook
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The Azure Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook

by Stéphane Eyskens, Ed Price
February 2021
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
8h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 5: Application Architecture

In the previous chapters, we thoroughly covered infrastructure. Now, the time has come to discuss your application-related concerns. After all, the purpose of an infrastructure is to host one or more applications. We will only consider Communication as a Service (CaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Function as a Service (FaaS), which are cloud and cloud-native approaches, in line with modern development techniques. We will not delve into Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), since it has zero impact on the way applications should be architected, compared to on-premises data centers.

In this chapter, you will learn about the difference between traditional IT practices and cloud-native practices. Additionally, ...

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