The Azure Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook: Explore Microsoft Cloud’s infrastructure, application, data, and security architecture

This book has recommendations from big names such as Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich, so what’s good about it?The book covers a broad range of the Azure workloads, but also enough detail to make it the go to resource for subject matter.I love the idea of using maps to cover the topics, relationships and zooming into detail. I find myself writing my own maps when reading technical books, trying hold the information and make it easily digestible later.The book covers sections specific to roles (architect, solution architect, infrastructure architect, application architect, data architect and security architect, this logical separation is like having a master map to drive the areas you want to focus on. This approach helps navigate you to the detail you want quickly rather than trying to pick out important paragraphs in a long textbook.The downside is the maps can be large, most of them are perfectly readable in print. The publisher provides these to be downloaded, which you can open them at any size which suits you.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to get started as an Azure developer/infrastructure engineer or architect to enhance their knowledge of the MS Azure ecosystem.This book thoroughly covers Azure architecture through maps. The reader begins with basic key architecture aspects. Using the architecture maps as mind maps, the reader can easily find the most suitable way to design and implement any scenario that occurs in their organization.

The book is so informative. I would have loved coloured pictures in the printed version.

In my opinion when a book is filled with spelling errors, acronyms not spelled out for the first time and other nonsense I wonder about the technical accuracy. I couldn’t make it past page 8 without encountering errors in this book. Get an editor. Have the editor actually look at your text and diagrams before publishing. If you did employ an editor, fire them and get a new one.

Didn’t come in a plastic tight sleeve.