Azure for Architects - Second Edition: Implementing cloud design, DevOps, containers, IoT, and serverless solutions on your public cloud

I never bothered finishing this book. The writing was repetitive and long winded and I found other examples of hard to read figures and confusing diagrams. It looks and feels like a rushed job. Since my other two experiences with a book from packt were the same I'll also be staying away from books published by them as in the future too.ORIGINAL REVIEW:Packt editing and print quality is poor.I’ll update this review to reflect the overall quality of the book when I’ve fully consumed it… but Packt isn’t getting things off to a good start. See the photo below from page 10, it's almost impossible to see which items are in which category (taking a photo under a bright light helps a little). I’ve read other Packt books that were poorly edited and this one so far seems to be of the same mold. Also typos and grammar errors already that take away from the reading experience. As I said I’ll give a more overall view when I’m done with the book.

this is not an architect book in my personal view, i term an architect as someone who does top down systems design and partitions, structures and balances a wide range of complex considerations including scale, performance, reliability, quality, flexibility and extensibility (just for starters). as an intro book to configuring a good number of Azure components and services it's pretty good, but doesn't explain much and jumps straight to screen shots in very low res of admin panels. why they aren't better resolution and annotated is beyond me.

Das Buch erleichtert das Arbeiten mit Azure ungemein und der Autor hat die verschiedenen Themen sehr gut zusammengepackt.Beispielhaft ist hier Kapitel 3 "Security and Monitoring" zu nennen. Hier werden die verschiedenen Optionen zur Implementierung von Sicherheitsvorgaben der Reihe nach durchgegangen (Network Security Groups, Firewall, Role based Access, ...). Obwohl hier viele Details und Einzelparameter durchgegangen werden, wird trotzdem das große Ziel mit Checklisten etc. nicht vergessen. Ein sehr gelungenes Kapitel!Weiteres Beispiel für die Qualität des Buches ist Kapitel 10 "Azure Solutions using Azure Container Services": Zu Beginn wird die Azure Container Registry eingeführt und wie man eigene Repositories erstellen kann. Nach einer Kurzerklärung zu Kubernetes wird ein Beispiel dazu Befehl für Befehl durchgegangen, so dass ein Deployment von eigenen Services nichts mehr im Wege steht.Die beiden Kapitel sind in Summe ca. 80 Seiten lang. Die restlichen 13 Kapitel füllen 430 Seiten und haben somit alle ungefähr eine Länge zwischen 30 und 40 Seiten, was die jeweilige Einarbeitung in ein Thema sehr angenehm macht.

I was looking forward to this book as a great guide to prepare for the AZ-300/AZ-301 Azure Solution Architect Certification. The table of contents was promising as it tries to cover many important topics. But when I started reading it I couldn't believe that the author AND the publisher did not take more care when reviewing the content.Right from the start in the chapter "Getting Started" ehe author mixes up singular and plural in almost every sentence.First I thought an error might happen but then I noticed these errors continued in "chapter 1" which pushed me to put this book away, prepare to send it back and write this review.This is really sad as I believe the author is very knowledgable.To the author and publisher PACKT:Please, thoroughly review the book and also improve the structure and golden thread, i.e. In chapter 1 the author explains the problems and limitations of Azure Service Manager (ASM), without properly introducing what it is. Then switching to Azure Resource Manager. All very loosely connected.As the book is hardly readable due to the errors mentioned before and a missing common thread I'm going to return this it and ask for a refund.

It's nice book and we'll explained