CHAPTER 4

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Azure, A Microservice Platform

Let’s examine Azure with respect to our definition of microservices:

  • Azure Services are isolated and autonomous: Yes
  • Azure Services are configurable: Yes
  • Azure Services provide elastic scale: Yes
  • Azure Services are programmable through secure endpoints: Yes
  • Azure Services are automatable through a ReST API such that the creation, management, monitoring, and teardown is controlled completely through software: Yes
  • Azure Services are composable in that they can be combined in uncountable ways to formulate solutions that address business and technical goals: Yes

Azure’s finished services such as SQL Database, ...

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