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Published inNov 2017
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781785884917
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Understanding the Azure Storage architecture

Learning how to work with Azure Storage and how to design it to fit your solution is everyone's purpose, but learning what is going on behind the scenes and what every piece means is what makes you an expert.

Azure Storage is a distributed storage software stack built by Microsoft. The storage access architecture consists of the following three layers:

  • Front-End layer
  • Partition layer
  • Stream layer

Front-End layer

The Front-End layer is responsible for receiving incoming requests, their authentication, and authorization, and then delivers them to a partition server in the Partition layer.

You may wonder, how does the frontend know which partition server to forward each request...

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Published in: Nov 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785884917