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Designing applications in Azure

I like to design applications for more scale, resilience, and manageability. Here are some things to keep in mind:

• Make your applications self-healing as much as possible:
  • Design for failures and handle them
  • Log and monitor
• Build for scaling out:
  • Offload resource intensive tasks
  • Design for scale in
  • Identify bottlenecks
• Partition around resource limits:
  • Understand limits and use partitioning to get around them; you can find more information at the following link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-subscription-service-limits

• Design with DevOps in mind:
  • Monitoring
  • Deploying
  • Escalation
  • Security/auditing
  • Make all thing observable
  • Treat configuration as code
• Design for evolution:
  • Use loose ...