Application Architecture styles for Azure

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  • Microservices

  • Big Data

  • N-tier

  • Big Compute

  • Event driven

  • Web Queue

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Modernized Application Architecture styles

Microservices

Microservices Architecture

Modernizing applications in the cloud can build a flexible foundation for future innovation.

  • A microservice should be small enough that a single feature team can build, test, and deploy it
  • Transform monolithic legacy applications into cloud applications built on microservices architecture
  • Build stateless or stateful microservices
  • Add features without the overhead of reliability, scalability, management, or latency in the underlying infrastructure.
  • Bring your Docker containers on Linux or Windows and run them reliably at scale alongside other workloads and services.
  • Run anything – your choice of languages and programming models
  • Transform monolithic legacy applications into cloud applications built on microservices architecture.
  • Modernize Legacy applications or build cloud-native
  • Mix and match the programming models and languages that work for you, from containers and guest-executables to microservices and actors.

Big Data

Big Data Architecture

  • Store and process data in volumes too large for a traditional database.
  • Transform unstructured data for analysis and reporting.
  • Capture, process, and analyze unbounded streams of data in real time, or with low latency.
Modern Data Warehouse Architecture

Big Data - Stream Analytics

  • Extract, transform, and load (ETL) from your data sources to a data lake
  • Ingest batch or streaming data
  • Use Azure Machine Learning or Azure Cognitive Services.
Modern Data Warehouse Architecture

N-tier

It's advantageous for N-tier applications to use managed services for some parts of the architecture, particularly caching, messaging, and data storage.
Modern Data Warehouse Architecture

N-tier

  • Natural evolution from the traditional application model
  • Relatively low cost by not rearchitecting the solution
  • Takes advantage of cloud managed services to scale
Modern Data Warehouse Architecture

N-tier

  • Utilize virtual machine scale sets to autoscale
  • Cache semistatic data
  • Asynchronous messaging to decouple tiers

Big Compute

Big Compute Architecture

Large-scale workloads that require a large number of cores, often numbering in the hundreds or thousands.

  • Image rendering
  • Fluid dynamics
  • Financial risk modeling
Modern Data Warehouse Architecture
  • Oil and gas exploration
  • Pharma / Drug design
  • Engineering stress analysis
Modern Data Warehouse Architecture

Event-driven

Big Data Pipeline Architecture

Event-driven architecture

  • Publish / Subscribe
  • Event streaming
  • Simple event processing
  • Basic event correlation
  • Complex event processing
  • Event stream processing

As events occur, they’re published to an endpoint called a topic that the Event Grid service manages to digest all incoming messages

Big Data Pipeline Architecture

Event-driven architecture

  • Topics for native Azure resources are built in
  • Azure Event Grid is agnostic to any language or platform
  • Event publishers aren’t limited to services on Azure

Web-Queue-Worker

The Web-Queue-Worker architecture is typically implemented using Azure App Service or Web Apps.

Web-Queue-Worker

  • One or more databases
  • A cache to store values from the database for quick reads
  • CDN to serve static content
Modern Data Warehouse Architecture

Web-Queue-Worker

  • Utilizes CDN to host static content
  • Autoscale to handle changes in load
  • The front end is decoupled from the worker using asynchronous messaging
Modern Data Warehouse Architecture

Modernized Application Architecture styles

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