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Modernizing Legacy Applications to Microsoft Azure

Plan and execute your modernization journey seamlessly

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|Oct 2023
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Move legacy applications to a hyper-scale cloud such as Azure using best practices and surefire techniques

Key Features

  • Meet the needs of mainframe applications using hyper-scale platform
  • Move from a monolithic architecture to a modern cloud architecture by employing a perspective plan
  • Avoid the big bang approach to modernization when in need of a phased approach
  • Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

Organizations have varying circumstances, objectives, and prerequisites when contemplating a hyper-scale cloud solution transformation to a platform such as Azure. Modernizing Legacy Applications to Microsoft Azure uncovers potential scenarios and provides choices, methodologies, techniques, and prospective possibilities for transitioning from legacy applications to the Microsoft Azure environment.
You’ll start by understanding the legacy systems and the main concerns regarding migration. Then, you’ll investigate why distributed architectures are compelling and the various components of the Azure platform needed during migration. After that, you’ll explore the approaches to modernizing legacy applications and the Rs of modernizing (i.e., rehost, refactor, rearchitect, and retire). You’ll also learn about integration approaches and potential pitfalls.
By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to modernize your legacy workloads while being aware of pitfalls and best practices.

What you will learn

  • Understand your current legacy estate's options before moving to Azure
  • Move to a cloud environment from your legacy applications
  • Build equivalent or superior application SLAs in Azure
  • Use interoperability to enable a phased approach
  • Integrate DevOps to help accelerate modernization
  • Extend application functionality after migration

Who this book is for

This book is for both decision makers and implementers including CIOs, CTOs, data and application architects, developers (both legacy and cloud), and business strategists. Prior knowledge of legacy languages and modern cloud-based languages like C#/.NET and Java would be helpful.

Table of Contents

  1. Understanding Your Legacy Environment - the Modernization Journey
  2. Strategies for Modernizing IBM and Unisys Mainframes
  3. Midrange to Azure
  4. Modernizing Legacy UNIX Systems
  5. An Overview of the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform
  6. Azure Cloud Architecture Overview for Mission-Critical Workloads
  7. Behold the Monolith - Pros and Cons of a Monolithic Architecture
  8. Exploring Deployment Options in Azure
  9. Modernization Strategies and Patterns - the Big Picture
  10. Modernizing the Monolith - Best Practices
  11. Integration - Playing Friendly in a Cloud-Native World
  12. Planning for the Future - Trends to Be Aware of
PDF ISBN: 978-1-80323-846-3
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2023 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 200