Τα πιο απαραίτητα εργαλεία για όσους θέλουν να ασχοληθούν με Cloud τεχνολογίες
- Cloud Adoption: Risk & Mitigations – The Swiss Cheese Model – a free poster from endjin & Hymans Robertson outlining the risk and mitigations of adopting public cloud.
- Embracing Disruption: Financial Services & the Microsoft Cloud – a free ebooklet from endjin describing how companies in FS can take advantage of Azure.
- endjin’s Azure Tech Selector – a flowchart which guides you through the process of chosing the best Azure service for your needs.
- Microsoft’s What is Azure poster – a visual overview of Azure’s services and features.
- Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure – a free ebook from Microsoft Press, by Michael S. Collier and Robin E. Shahan.
- Data Science in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and R – a free ebook on Azure Machine Learning, by Stephen F. Elston.
- Protecting Data in Microsoft Azure – a whitepaper that describes the various mechanism you can you can leverage for managing sensitive data in the Azure platform.
- A-Z of the Azure ecosystem – a slide deck outlining current Azure services.
- Azure Guidance – guidance from the Patterns & Practices team covering API Design, API implementation, Autoscaling, Background jobs, CDN, Caching, Data partitioning, Monitoring and diagnostics, Retry, Scalability and availability.
- Azure Architect’s Reference – if you are an architect responsible for building an application on Azure, or are trying to figure out how you could migrate an application and need to dig deep into the workload, cost, security, capacity, availability, deployment and operational modelling this invaluable resource should be your first stop. An open source project, with contributions from several experienced architects, it gathers data from many different references into a single, useful guide that is constantly updated by the community.
- Azure Table Storage Design Guide – a guide from the storage team.
- Azure infrastructure services implementation guidelines – key design and implementation guidelines for deploying an IT workload in Azure infrastructure services.
- Azure Speed Test – a simple web tool that measures the latency between you and Azure Datacenters to suggest which might be fastest for you location.
- Azure Websites Cheatsheet – everything you need to know about configuring & managing Azure Websites on a single page.
- SQL Database Migration Wizard – a very useful tool for migrating existing SQL databases to SQL Azure; will fix some common conversion errors automatically.
- Azure SQL DTU Calculator – a tool to help you determine the number of DTUs for your existing SQL Server database(s) as well as a recommendation of the minimum performance level and service tier that you need before you migrate to Azure SQL Database.
- Microsoft Azure Symbol/Icon Set – a set of Visio and PowerPoint shapes for use in architecture diagrams / presentations.
- Service Bus Explorer – a free and open source tool for managing and exploring Azure Service Bus(including Event Hubs).
- Best practices for designing Azure Resource Manager Templates – guidance based on the whitepaper ‘World Class ARM Templates Considerations and Proven Practices’.
- Microsoft Cloud Networking for Enterprise Architects – a downloadable guide to Azure networking, covering topics such as cloud migration and networking for PaaS and SaaS services
- Cyber Security Demystified – a free ebook from Microsoft describing how to keep your organisation safe.
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