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Published inJun 2023
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Safeer CM
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Safeer CM

Safeer CM is a technology generalist with more than 16 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and platform engineering. A site reliability engineer by trade, Safeer has managed large-scale production infrastructures at internet giants like Yahoo and LinkedIn and is currently working at Flipkart. He has experience in cloud management and consulting for budding and established startups as a cloud architect. He is an ambassador of the Continuous Delivery Foundation and contributes to the CD and DevOps communities. As a technology speaker, blogger and meetup organizer, Safeer enjoys mentoring new technology talents, especially in the fields of SRE and DevOps.
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Azure Blob Storage

Azure Blob Storage is an object storage offering from the Azure cloud. It is tuned for storing large amounts of data, in terms of the number of objects as well as the size of objects. Blob stands for binary large objects and images and videos are some of the file types that fall into this category. You can store any type and amount of unstructured data in blob storage. Some of the common usage patterns for blob storage are as follows:

  • Media storage for images and videos to be centrally distributed
  • Serving images or documents to the end customers directly
  • Streaming multimedia content
  • Data backup, archiving, and disaster recovery
  • Data storage for big data analysis – known as data lakes

Like most other services, Blob Storage can be accessed from its REST API, the portal, the Azure CLI, or client SDKs in various languages. With SDKs, you can programmatically integrate Blob Storage into your applications.

Azure Blob Storage is...

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Published in: Jun 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803230085

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Safeer CM

Safeer CM is a technology generalist with more than 16 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and platform engineering. A site reliability engineer by trade, Safeer has managed large-scale production infrastructures at internet giants like Yahoo and LinkedIn and is currently working at Flipkart. He has experience in cloud management and consulting for budding and established startups as a cloud architect. He is an ambassador of the Continuous Delivery Foundation and contributes to the CD and DevOps communities. As a technology speaker, blogger and meetup organizer, Safeer enjoys mentoring new technology talents, especially in the fields of SRE and DevOps.
Read more about Safeer CM