The 9 Knights of Azure: Services to Get You Started
summary
Covers nine concrete Azure choices and what actually works: deploy a web app from VS in minutes and use App Services to avoid infra; DevOps Project creates repo + CI/CD pipeline automatically so developers get code, builds and releases from a wizard; recommends Cosmos DB for geo scale and low latency over SQL for new global apps (mentions Azure 50+ regions); shows API Management for docs, quotas and caching (cost: hundreds–thousands/month); demos Logic Apps + Text Analytics cutting tickets ~9% and AKS for Kubernetes with Docker + Helm.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 3:24Adam Cogan
- 19:18Tip: Azure DevOps Project (Preview)
- 24:01Summary: DevOps
- 27:46Accessing Cosmos DB
- 28:39Cosmos DB: Sweet Spot
- 31:56Summary: Database
- 32:43VERDICT: Cosmos DB
- 34:09History of Security Windows
- 45:46Microsoft Flow vs Logic Apps
- 46:43Summary: Logic Apps
- 51:262. Integration Testing 3. Performance Testing 4. Usability Testing
- 54:53Summary: Cognitive Services
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