Summary

There are numerous services available on Azure and most can be combined to create real solutions. It was difficult to write about design patterns in 20 pages where there are hundreds of services and multiple ways to bring them together. This chapter explained the three most important services from Azure--regions, storage, and networks. They almost form the backbone of every solution deployed on any cloud. This chapter provided details about these services and how their configuration and provisioning can affect design decisions. The important considerations for both storage and networks were detailed in this chapter. Both networks and storage provide lots of choices and it is important to choose an appropriate configuration based on requirement. Finally, some of the important design patterns related to messaging such as competing consumers, priority queues, and load leveling were described. Patterns related to CQRS and throttling were illustrated and other patterns such as retry, and circuit breaker were discussed.

Next chapter will be an interesting chapter discussing High Availability options available in Azure for deploying workloads.