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Design an enterprise solution from scratch that allows the migration of a legacy application. Begin with the planning and design phase and be guided through all the stages of selecting the architecture framework that fits your enterprise.

Join Microsoft MVP Josh Garverick as he addresses all major areas of design and implementation-application, infrastructure, data, security, and deployment-while leveraging the power and tools of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to bring DevOps to the forefront.

With an emphasis on principles and best practices of enterprise design, you will discover how to recognize existing patterns within the legacy platform and to identify potential risks, bottlenecks, and candidates for automation.

What You´ll Learn

Accurately and completely capture baseline information about a legacy system

Leverage enterprise patterns for constructing next-generation platforms in the cloud

Design, plan, and implement deployment pipelines to enable continuous delivery

Identify and implement cloud-based platform components to reduce total cost of ownership

Understand testing and validation: iterative component authoring, monitoring, deployment, and performance

Price and perform capacity planning for cloud-based infrastructure and workloads

Who This Book Is For

Enterprise architects and IT professionals who are required to keep legacy applications relevant in today´s cloud-first world

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PART 1: Assessing the Legacy

Chapter 1: The Baseline

Chapter 2: Domain Architectures

Chapter 3: Security and Compliance

Chapter 4: Operating Models

PART II: Planning for the Future

Chapter 5: The Wireframe

Chapter 6: Capacity Planning

Chapter 7: Performance Considerations

Chapter 8: The Target

PART III Bringing it to the Cloud

Chapter 9: Transition Architectures

Chapter 10: Development Concepts

Chapter 11: Deployment Pipelines

Chapter 12: Operations and Site Reliability

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"The book is useful for learning concepts and technologies related to Azure application hosting. ... this is the first major book effort in this direction. It is a useful resource for the community." (Jawwad Shamsi, Computing Reviews, June 18, 2019)

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Josh Garverick is a Microsoft MVP and a seasoned IT professional with more than 15 years of enterprise experience working in several large industries (finance, healthcare, transportation, logistics). He specializes in Application Lifecycle Management and is currently involved with DevOps and architecture projects, focusing specifically on software architecture and enterprise needs. Josh is a Visual Studio ALM Ranger, providing guidance, practical experience, and solutions to the developer community. When not geeking out over technology and architecture frameworks, he enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter.

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