John Savill provides a comprehensive deep dive into Azure Front Door resiliency, architecture options for mission-critical cloud applications, and practical strategies for ensuring high availability on Microsoft Azure.

Azure Front Door Resiliency Deep Dive and Architecting for Mission Critical Applications

Presented by: John Savill’s Technical Training

This session focuses on designing highly available, resilient applications using Azure Front Door (AFD) and supporting Azure networking services. The video breaks down:

Table of Contents

  • AFD Refresher: Overview of Azure Front Door’s role in network traffic management
  • How is AFD Resilient: Examines resiliency features, including:
    • Front end and fallback layers
    • Traffic Shield
    • DNS integration and protection mechanisms
  • Configuration Layers:
    • System, Data, and Customer configurations
    • Removing asynchronous processes to improve reliability
  • Change Deployment: Best practices for deploying changes to mitigate downtime
  • Mission Critical Service Considerations:
    • Designing for both CDN and non-CDN scenarios
    • Reducing cross-tenant impact on high-demand workloads
  • Comparisons:
    • Scenarios leveraging Azure Traffic Manager, DNS, and Front Door together
    • CDN vs. non-CDN service architectures
  • Reliability Reviews:
    • Regularly reviewing architecture decisions for resiliency impact
  • Practical Resources:
    • Whiteboard diagrams for visual reference (link)
    • Links to learning resources, playlist series, and further training

Key Topics

  • Ensuring high availability for mission-critical workloads on Azure
  • Improving failover and fallback strategies within Azure’s network stack
  • Use of Traffic Shield and DNS to protect and accelerate web applications
  • Configuration guidance for reducing operational risks

Further Learning

For additional technical details, refer to the whiteboard diagrams and playlist series linked above.

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