Modernizing Legacy Applications to Microsoft Azure: Plan and execute your modernization journey seamlessly
Language: English
Published by Packt Publishing, 2023
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- Title
- Modernizing Legacy Applications to Microsoft Azure: Plan and execute your modernization journey seamlessly
- Author
- Steve Read; Larry Mead
- Publisher
- Packt Publishing
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1804616656
- ISBN 13
- 9781804616659
Rationale and methodologies for moving legacy applications to a hyper-scale cloud - specifically Azure
Key Features
- Understand how a hyper-scale platform can meet the needs of mainframe applications
- Move from a monolithic architecture to a modern cloud architecture with a perspective plan
- Tips on how to avoid the big bang approach to modernization when a phased approach is needed
Book Description
Clients have different current situations, goals and requirements for considering a hyper-scale cloud like Azure.This book will cover the possible scenarios and provide the options, approaches, technical considerations and future options for a migration of legacy applications to Microsoft Azure.
You will begin with a clear understanding of the legacy systems are and where you are starting from and understand the main concerns are when starting a migration. Next you will investigate why distributed architectures are so compelling and then dive into the various components of the Azure platform that need to be considered when migrating from legacy systems. You wiil then focus on the approaches to modernizing legacy applications and enumerate the R’s of modernizing (i.e. Rehost, Refactor, Reachitect, Retire). You will also learn about integration approaches and things to keep an eye out for in the near future.
By the end of the book, you will have a plan and strategy for modernizing your legacy workloads. You will know the pitfalls and strategies to help get you to the desired state.
What you will learn
- How to understand your current legacy estate’s options moving to Azure
- Take an application written over multiple decades to move to a cloud environment
- Provide equivalent or superior application SLAs in Azure
- Use interoperability to enable a phased approach
- Integrate DevOps to help accelerate modernization
- How to extend application functionality after the migration
Who This Book Is For
This book focuses on both decision makers and implementers who are considering Azure as a potential option for their legacy estate. These individuals such as CIOs, CTOs, Data and Application Architects, Developers (both legacy and cloud) and Business Strategists. Prior knowledge of both legacy languages and modern cloud-based languages like C#/.NET and Java would be helpful
Table of Contents
- Understanding Your Legacy Environment - The Modernization Journey
- Strategies for Modernizing IBM and Unisys Mainframes
- MidRange to Azure
- Modernizing Legacy UNIX Systems
- Azure Cloud Architecture Overview for Mission Critical
- A Brief Overview of the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform
- Behold the Monolith - Pros and Cons of a Monolithic Architecture
- Exploring Deployment Options in Azure
- Modernization Strategies and Patterns: The Big Picture
- Modernizing the Monolith Best Practices
- Integration - Playing Friendly in a Cloud Native World
- Planning for the Future - Trends to Be aware of
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About the Author
Larry has over 44 years experience in Information Technology that covers legacy platforms such as IBM and Unisys Mainframes, Midrange systems such as IBM iSeries and VMS, and UNIX systems such as AIX, Solaris and HP-UX, Larry has spent the last 27 years working for Microsoft with Microsoft Consulting Services, Corporate Technical Sales, field sales as a Data and Cloud Specialist and in Azure Engineering. At Microsoft, Larry has worked on mission critical projects that require high availability, high resiliency and high volume throughput across multiple industries. Currently, Larry is a thought leader in how to modernize mission critical legacy workloads to Azure.
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