Patterns

Design patterns in IT architecture provide reusable solutions to common problems and challenges.

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API Architectures

API architectures refer to the fundamental design, including principles, practices, and patterns, used to define and build the structure of an API, which facilitates communication and data exchange between software applications.

Efficient Batch Processing with Azure Batch

Organizations often need to process large volumes of data or perform compute-intensive tasks. This requires a scalable and efficient platform that can handle batch processing jobs, high-performance computing (HPC) applications, and parallel workloads.

High-Performance Caching with Azure Cache for Redis

Organizations often need to provide fast and responsive user experiences by caching frequently accessed data. This requires a scalable and efficient platform that can handle high throughput and low-latency access to data.

Containerized Applications with Azure Container Instances

Organizations often need to deploy and manage containerized applications without the overhead of managing virtual machines or adopting higher-level services. This requires a scalable and efficient platform that can handle container orchestration and management.

Container Image Management with Azure Container Registry

Organizations often need to build, store, and manage container images efficiently. This requires a scalable and secure platform that integrates seamlessly with other Azure services and supports continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

Data Processing and Analytics with Azure Databricks

Organizations often need to process, analyze, and visualize large volumes of data from various sources. This requires a scalable and efficient platform that can handle data engineering, data science, and business intelligence tasks.

Azure Enterprise Applications

Azure Enterprise Applications are pre-integrated applications available in the Microsoft Entra ID gallery. They enable organizations to manage access, single sign-on (SSO), and provisioning for a wide range of cloud and on-premises applications.

Data Processing and Analytics with Azure Event Hubs

Organizations often need to process, analyze, and visualize large volumes of data from various sources. This requires a scalable and efficient platform that can handle real-time data ingestion and processing.

Azure Fault and Update Domains

Azure Fault and Update Domains are features of Azure Availability Sets that help ensure high availability and reliability for your virtual machines (VMs). Fault domains provide physical separation of VMs across different hardware to protect against hardware failures, while update domains provide logical separation to ensure that VMs are not all updated or rebooted at the same time.

Securing Network Traffic with Azure Firewall

Organizations often need to secure their network traffic to protect against threats and ensure compliance with security policies. Azure Firewall provides a scalable and efficient platform for network security.

Serverless Computing with Azure Functions

Organizations often need to build and deploy event-driven, scalable applications without managing the underlying infrastructure. This requires a serverless computing platform that can handle various triggers and bindings efficiently.

Azure Just-In-Time (JIT) VM Access

Azure Just-In-Time (JIT) VM Access is a feature of Microsoft Defender for Cloud that helps protect your Azure virtual machines (VMs) from unauthorized network access. It allows you to lock down inbound traffic to your VMs, reducing exposure to attacks while providing easy access when needed.

Secure Secret Management with Azure Key Vault

Organizations often need to securely store and manage sensitive information such as API keys, passwords, certificates, and cryptographic keys. Azure Key Vault provides a scalable and efficient platform for centralized secret management.

Container Orchestration with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Organizations often need to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications efficiently. This requires a scalable and reliable platform that can handle container orchestration and management.

Azure Landing Zones

Azure Landing Zones are a set of guidelines, tools, and resources that help organizations establish a well-architected and secure environment in Azure. They are a critical component of the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), providing the foundation for deploying workloads, managing resources, and implementing governance and security controls. A Landing Zone is not just a collection of infrastructure resources; it’s a blueprint for organizing Azure resources across subscriptions and regions in a scalable, secure, and compliant manner.

Azure Logic Apps

Azure Logic Apps is a cloud platform that enables you to create and run automated workflows that integrate your apps, data, services, and systems. It provides a visual designer and prebuilt connectors to simplify the process of building workflows, making it easy to automate business processes and tasks.

Azure Privileged Identity Management

Azure Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is a service in Microsoft Entra ID that enables you to manage, control, and monitor access to important resources in your organization. It provides time-based and approval-based role activation to mitigate the risks of excessive, unnecessary, or misused access permissions on resources that you care about.

Implementing Azure Sentinel for Threat Detection and Response

Organizations often need to enhance their security operations by detecting, investigating, and responding to threats in real-time. This requires a scalable and efficient platform that can handle security information and event management (SIEM) tasks.

Microservices Management with Azure Service Fabric

Organizations often need to build and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers. This requires a distributed systems platform that simplifies the packaging, deployment, and management of these applications.

Cost-Effective Computing with Azure Spot Instances

Organizations often need to run compute-intensive workloads at a lower cost. This requires a scalable and cost-effective platform that can handle interruptions and optimize resource usage.

Data Analytics Platform for Acme Corp

Organizations often need to process, analyze, and visualize large volumes of data from various sources. This requires a scalable and efficient platform that can handle data engineering, data science, and business intelligence tasks.

Web Application Hosting with Azure Web Apps

Organizations often need to build, deploy, and scale web applications quickly and efficiently. This requires a fully managed platform that supports multiple programming languages and frameworks, providing a robust environment for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends.

Cache Architectures

Cache, in computer systems, refers to a mechanism that utilizes high-speed memory to temporarily store frequently accessed data or instructions, regardless of its specific form (such as CPU cache, disk cache, or web cache), with the aim of improving overall system performance by reducing data access latency.

GitHub Terraform Repo

This pattern shows how I structure my GitHub repositories for storing Terraform code for Azure and AWS

Microsoft Monitoring Agent

Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) is a versatile agent used to collect and report on data from various sources, including Azure Log Analytics and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). It helps monitor the health and performance of your infrastructure and applications.


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