Paul Ivey - Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure AZ-204 Exam Guide: Discover the essentials for success when developing and maintaining cloud-based solutions on Azure

Discover the essentials for success when developing and maintaining cloud-based solutions on Azure

Paul Ivey

Alex Ivanov

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To all those who did their part and continue doing their part during the COVID-19 pandemic and supporting the Ukrainian people during this difficult time.

Paul Ivey

To the people of Ukraine, and their strength, courage, and resilience in resisting the violent invasion. #StandWithUkraine

Alex Ivanov

Paul Ivey is an experienced engineer and architect specializing in Microsoft technologies, both on-premises and in the Azure cloud.

In his four years at Microsoft, Paul has been a secure infrastructure engineer and an app innovation engineer, where he helped hundreds of enterprise customers adopt DevOps practices and develop solutions for Azure.

Paul is now a Microsoft Technical Trainer, providing training for Microsoft customers to help them with preparing to pass Azure exams.

In his spare time, Paul is a keen PC gamer and enjoys traveling abroad to experience foreign sights, cultures, and food (mostly food).

Originally from Devon in the UK, Paul currently lives in Cheltenham in the beautiful Cotswolds area of England.

I want to thank my amazing fiance, Krishelle, for being my motivation and biggest supporter in all things. Id also like to thank my friends and colleagues that supported me and provided learning opportunities over the years, with a special shoutout to Gary, Ira, Liam, and Suren. The whole Packt team has helped make my first authoring experience a pleasant and successful one, particularly Ashwin Kharwa and Romy Dias.

Alex Ivanov is an experienced cloud engineer with a primary focus on supporting companies in their journeys to adopt Azure services. Alex has worked for Microsoft for eight years as a cloud support engineer and four years as an Azure Technical Trainer.

Alex is an expert in software engineering and digital transformation who has helped many customers to migrate their solutions to Azure. His experience has helped him gain multiple certifications in software development, AI, and data platforms. As a professional trainer, Alex has already educated thousands of clients and helped them to prepare for and pass the Azure certification exams.

In his free time, while not being jumped on by his three kids, he enjoys camping, boating, running, and building RC models.

I want to thank my beautiful wife, Olga, and my kids, Sofia, Daniel, and Peter, who give me space and inspired me to write this book. Id also like to thank the whole Packt editing team for helping me with my first authoring experience. Special thanks to Romy Dias, who edited most of my work.

Massimo Bonanni specializes in cloud application development and, in particular, Azure compute technologies. He is a Microsoft Technical Trainer at Microsoft, and his goal is to help customers utilize their Azure skills to achieve more and leverage the power of Azure in their solutions. He is also a writer (he has written a couple of books about serverless in the past two years), a technical speaker at national and international conferences, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He was a Microsoft MVP (for six years in Visual Studio, development technologies, and Windows development), an Intel Software innovator, and an Intel Black Belt.

I would like to thank my wife and family for their patience and the support they give me in my work. Without their contribution and support, everything would be much more difficult.