Hardening Azure Applications

Introduction

This book, Hardening Azure Applications, examines the techniques and engineering principles critical to the cloud architect, developer, and business stakeholder as they envision and harden their Azure cloud applications to ensure maximum reliability and availability when deployed at scale. While the techniques elaborated in the book are implemented in .NET and optimized for Azure, the principles herein will be invaluable and directly applicable to other cloud-based platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Google.

Applications come in a variety of forms, from simple apps that can be built and deployed in hours to mega-scale apps that need significantly higher engineering rigor and robust organizations to deliver. So how do you build ...