The Tech Lab by Aisha Ikram

In order to understand anything for need to communicate or understand the language in which a system or problem is described. Cloud Computing have its own have language or technicalities which are very important to understand in order to understand the potential or the Cloud services. This cloud concept glossary with key terms and description is addressed briefly and concisely under the Series of Cloud Basics and Fundamentals . Microsoft have created an exam with Exam ref Az-900 for the basics of cloud for those people who are using or interacting with cloud in their roles, they could be administrators, clients or users. This Series have following with a great effort to summarise the points in the relevant cloud topics and if you are a beginner in Cloud Computing, you can quickly go through them without wasting much time on long articles and Microsoft documentation . However for deeper dive I found the best resource is Microsoft Docs. Some of the concepts have been re-phrased from the...

Azure offers a number of ways to host your application code on the cloud. The term compute refers to the hosting model for the computing resources that your application runs on. There are many compute service that Azure offer. The most commonly used are: Virtual Machines (IAAS) App Services (PAAS- Hosting Web APIs, Mobile APIs, Web Apps etc) Container Instances and Kubernetes (clusters of containers) Azure Batch Azure Service Fabric Serverless Solutions  Azure Functions Azure Logic Apps In order to decide which type of hosting environment or compute solution you need. the following flowchart from Microsoft will help you to choose a compute service for your application. Click to Enlarge - (Photo Courtesy: Microsoft) If your application consists of multiple workloads, evaluate each workload separately. A complete solution may incorporate two or more compute services. 👉The first approach to  migrate your solution is to " Lift and shift ". This is a strategy for migrating a work...