Author: Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

In ASP.NET Core, middleware components are used to handle requests and responses as they flow through the application's pipeline. These middleware components can be chained together to process requests and responses in a specific order. Transferring data between middleware components can be achieved using various techniques. Here are a few commonly used methods.

HttpContext.Items

The HttpContext class in ASP.NET Core provides a dictionary-like collection (Items) that allows you to store and retrieve data within the scope of a single HTTP request. This data can be accessed by any middleware component in the request pipeline.

Encryption keys in Azure can be controlled by the platform or the customer.

Encryption keys, known as platform-managed keys (PMKs), are created, kept, and controlled exclusively by Azure. PMKs are not used in customer interactions. For instance, PMKs are the default type of keys used for Azure Data Encryption-at-Rest.

Create Function App

Make a function app that allows you to organize functions into logical groups for simpler resource management, deployment, and sharing. Functions enable serverless code execution without the need to initially publish a web application or establish a virtual machine.

Project Details

To control costs and deploy resources, choose a subscription. For resource management and organization, use resource groups like folders.

Introduction

A distributed systems platform called Azure Service Fabric makes it simple to bundle, launch, and manage scalable and dependable microservices and containers. The considerable difficulties in creating and maintaining cloud-native apps are also addressed by Service Fabric.

The high emphasis placed on developing stateful services by Service Fabric is one of its primary differentiators. You can run containerized stateful services created in any language or code using the Service Fabric programming architecture. In addition to Azure, you may create Service Fabric clusters anywhere, including on-premises Windows Server and Linux systems as well as other public clouds.

Introduction

With big data streaming platform and event ingestion service Azure Event Hubs, millions of events can be received and processed in a single second. Any real-time analytics provider or batching/storage adaptor can transform and store data supplied to an event hub. Event Hubs is a simple, dependable, and scalable real-time data intake solution. Build dynamic data pipelines that stream millions of events per second from any source to quickly address business concerns. During emergencies, continue processing data by utilizing the geo-disaster recovery and geo-replication functionalities.

Effortlessly integrate with other Azure services to gain insightful information. You get a managed Kafka experience without having to maintain your own clusters when you enable existing Apache Kafka clients and applications to communicate with Event Hubs without any code changes. Experience both micro-batching and real-time data intake in the same stream.

Introduction

Message queues and publish-subscribe topics are features of the fully managed enterprise message broker Azure Service Bus (in a namespace). The following advantages are available when using Service Bus to decouple applications and services from one another:

1. Distributing tasks among rival employees.
2. Exchanging data and control across service and application boundaries in a secure manner.
3. Coordinating transactional work that requires a high degree of reliability.

Overview of Microsoft's Azure Bus Service

Messages are used to move data between various apps and services. A message is a data-filled container that has metadata on it. Any type of information can be used as the data, including structured data stored in popular formats like JSON, XML, Apache Avro, and plain text. 

Built on Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is a suite of features for big data analytics.

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 and Azure Blob Storage's capabilities are combined in Data Lake Storage Gen2. For instance, Data Lake Storage Gen2 offers scale, file-level security, and file system semantics. You will also receive low-cost, tiered storage with high availability and disaster recovery capabilities because these capabilities are built on Blob storage.

To automate processes, workflows, etc., Platform as a Service (PaaS) from Microsoft Azure's Azure Logic Apps is used. It facilitates the creation of automated processes that can connect applications, systems, and services. Most businesses utilize Azure Logic Apps to create highly scalable integration solutions in B2B scenarios.

How Do Azure Logic Apps Work?

Platform as a Service (PaaS) Microsoft Azure's Logic Apps is used to automate processes, workflows, etc. It supports the design and construction of automated processes that can link services, systems, and applications. Most companies in B2B situations use Azure Logic Apps to build highly scalable integration solutions.

A distributed network of servers known as the Azure CDN is used to cache and store material so that it may be viewed by computers all over the world. Geographical separation between a website visitor and the server that hosts the site can significantly increase latency. With the goal of reducing latency, Azure CDN servers are situated close to end users. Azure CDN allows a client seeking that content to obtain it from the location to which they have the lowest latency and maximum bandwidth connection rather than retrieving it from a single site that may be on another continent or in another hemisphere. Point-of-presence (POP) locations are the server locations that house content repositories.

By utilizing various network optimizations with CDN POPs, such as route optimization to avoid Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Azure CDN may also speed up dynamic material that cannot be cached.

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a cloud service for managing identities and access. This solution facilitates access to thousands of additional SaaS applications, the Azure portal, and external resources like Microsoft 365 for your staff members. In addition, they can also access internal resources like apps on your business intranet network and any cloud apps created by your company, thanks to Azure Active Directory. See QuickStart: Create a new tenant in Azure Active Directory for more details on building a tenancy for your business.

Azure AD Is Used by Who?

Azure AD can be used for the following:

An overview of frequent scenarios and important Azure API Management components is given in this post. Azure API Management is a hybrid, multi-cloud management tool for APIs in all settings. API Management, a platform-as-a-service, provides the entire API lifecycle.

APIs make data and services reusable and widely accessible, simplify application integration, support new digital goods, and enable digital experiences. Due to API growth and reliance, businesses must manage them as first-class assets throughout their lifecycles.  

A NoSQL database with strong consistency is Cosmos DB. It lacks a schema, enables SQL-like querying, and even contains JavaScript-written stored procedures, triggers, and UDFs (User Defined Functions). It's Microsoft's response to systems like MongoDB, Cassandra, Couchbase, and others. For at least 99 percent of requests, Cosmos DB promises latencies of fewer than ten milliseconds for reads and less than 15 milliseconds for writes. With that level of performance assurance, Cosmos DB is poised to rule the planet.

For Cosmos DB, Microsoft also supportss.NET, Node.js, Java, and a Python SDK. It is fully managed and operates on Azure. All the data is automatically replicated across any number of global regions. It offers several different consistency levels.

Data backup and recovery from the Microsoft Azure cloud are made easy, secure, and affordable with the help of the Azure Backup service.

Azure Backup is a one-click backup solution that is affordable, secure, and scalable based on your backup storage requirements. It is simple to set backup policies and safeguard a variety of enterprise workloads using the unified administration interface, including Azure Virtual Machines, SQL and SAP databases, and Azure file shares.

What Is a Virtual Machine?

It is a computer file known as an image that functions much like a real computer. One of the folders that contain everything is that one. Windows, Linux, and other operating systems can all run it. As a result, you have the flexibility to run several machines on a single physical computer. In addition, different operating systems are possible for various systems.

The virtual hardware that each of these virtual machines offers includes CPUs, RAM, hard drives, network connections, and other similar components.

Microsoft's cloud storage option for contemporary data storage scenarios is the Azure Storage platform. For a range of data objects, Azure Storage provides highly available, massively scalable, reliable, and secure cloud storage. Data items in Azure Storage are reachable via a REST API over HTTP or HTTPS from anywhere in the world. Azure Storage also provides client libraries for programmers using.NET Java, Python, JavaScript, C++, and Go to create apps or services. Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI are scripting languages developers and IT specialists can use to create data management or configuration jobs. Users can interact with Azure Storage using the Azure portal and Azure Storage Explorer.

The Advantages of Azure Storage

The following advantages are provided by Azure Storage services for programmers and IT specialists:

One of the earliest Azure cloud services to hit the market is this one. The Azure DevOps services are perfect for more intelligent planning and improved teamwork to achieve quicker delivery. Azure DevOps services may be the best option for those looking to build, test, and deploy using CI/CD. Any DevOps service can be chosen based on your business needs.

Services Offered by DevOps

Azure Repos

This offers Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) or Git repositories (TFVC).