Brett Hargreaves - Exam Ref AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification and Beyond

Design secure and reliable solutions for the real world in Microsoft Azure

Brett Hargreaves

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To the doctors, nurses, public health officials, and first responders who are protecting us from COVID-19.

Based in the UK, Brett Hargreaves is a lead Azure consultant who has worked for some of the world's biggest companies for over 25 years, helping them design and build cutting-edge solutions. With a career spanning infrastructure, development, consulting, and architecture, he has been involved in projects covering the entire solution stack, including hardware, virtualization, databases, storage, software development, and the cloud.

He loves passing on his knowledge to others through books, blogging, and his online training courses, which have over 20,000 students (and counting!).

I want to thank my amazing wife, Cathy, for giving me the space and support I've needed to write this book, even while the COVID-19 global pandemic was raging around us. I'd also like to thank the many experienced professionals who I work with daily and who continually provide exciting challenges that help deepen my knowledge. Finally, I would like to thank the Packt team for giving me this opportunity to put my knowledge down on paper.

Sandeep Soni is an Azure Solutions Architect with expertise in designing, developing, and architecting Azure solutions. He has had experience with all the services offered on the Azure cloud, including PaaS, IaaS, storage, virtual networking, and so on. He offers expertise across the whole spectrum of software technology. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer with 25 years of IT experience, he is adept at technology training, including corporate training, live training, and online webinars. He has trained over 100,000 individuals all over the world and delivered over 200 corporate training events across India and abroad in Microsoft Azure, covering development, infrastructure, security, architecture, Azure DevOps, orchestration microservices using Kubernetes and Azure Service Fabric, C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET, and ASP.NET Core, to name a few.

I would like to thank my family for their continued support and encouragement in everything that I do, and the team of Deccansoft, who manage background work while I am delivering training, earning certifications, and making other contributions to the world of IT.

Ricardo Cabral is a licensed computer engineer with several Microsoft certifications, and is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Having worked in both administration and development roles, with several years' experience in IT management, development, and projects, he now works as an IT consultant and trainer. In his spare time, he actively participates in, volunteers, and speaks at technical community meetings.