Table of Contents

Part I. The Basics.- 1. Azure Basics.- 2. Serverless Computing.- 3. Data Driven Applications.- Part II. Hands-On.- 4. Azure Functions.- 5. Logic Apps.- 6. Azure Data Factory.- 7. Database and Storage Options.- 8. IoT Hub, Event Hub, and Streaming Data.- 9. Power BI.- Part III. Design Practices.- 10. Achieving Resiliency.- 11. Queues, Messages, and Commands.- 12. Processing Streams of Data.- 13. Monitoring Serverless Applications.- Part IV. Putting It All Together.- 14. Tools and Helpers.- 15. Data Loading Patterns.- 16. Data Storage Patterns.- 17. Architecture for a Modern Data Driven Application.

About the Author

​Dr. Benjamin Kettner is co-founder and CTO of ML!PA Consulting GmbH. Since 2020, he has been a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and a Friend of Red Gate. He received his doctorate in applied mathematics at the Free University of Berlin in 2012. At the time of his doctorate, he was a member of the DFG Research Center Matheon-Mathematics for Key Technologies, and a member of the Computational Nano Optics group at the Zuse Institute Berlin. 
Frank Geisler is owner and CEO of GDS Business Intelligence GmbH, a Microsoft Gold Partner in five categories. He is located in Lüdinghausen, in the lovely Münsterland. He is a Data Platform MVP, MCT, MCSE-Business Intelligence, MCSE-Data Platform, MCSE-Azure Solutions Architect, and DevOps Engineer Expert. In his job he is building business intelligence systems based on Microsoft technologies, mainly on SQL Server and Microsoft Azure. He has also a strong focus on Database DevOps.