Leading Microsoft Azure expert Haishi Bai shows how to:

• Set up your Service Fabric development environment
• Program and deploy Service Fabric applications to a local or a cloud-based cluster
• Compare and use stateful services, stateless services, and the actor model
• Design Service Fabric applications to maximise availability, reliability, and scalability
• Improve management efficiency via scripting
• Configure network security and other advanced cluster settings
• Collect diagnostic data, and use Azure Operational Management Suite to interpret it
• Integrate microservices components developed in parallel
• Use containers to mobilise applications for failover, replication, scaling, and load balancing
• Streamline containerisation with Docker in Linux and Windows environments
• Orchestrate containers to schedule workloads and maintain services at desired states
• Implement proven design patterns for common cloud application workloads
• Balance throughput, latency, scalability, and cost