Explore Azure applications, Fabric mirroring, data lakes, and Spark on Databricks. Start with a use case, follow the connections, and discover what each product contributes.
Azure
A customer portal on Azure
Suppose a training company wants customers to book courses, download invoices, and receive confirmation emails. Its team already works in Azure.
Interactive blueprint
Customer request
Asynchronous work and file storage
Read the architecture
A map you can investigate.
Why this stack
Begin with App Service and a relational database. Add durable messaging when email and document generation need retries; add edge protection when the exposure and delivery requirements justify it.
The tradeoff
Managed services reduce server administration, but each service adds configuration, permissions, monitoring, and cost. Queue retries still require idempotent application code.
An illustrative extension of the Azure web-app pattern. The basic three-box path is a learning baseline, not a complete production deployment. Identity, networking, recovery, and tier choices need a separate design.
Product directory — tools across all the reference patterns
These are alternatives and building blocks, not a requirement to use every product together. Select a name to explore its reference architecture.
Start from the beginning: how a simple system grows
Two guided paths explain the decisions behind these stacks, one step at a time.
Step 1 of 4
Publish the timetable
The studio publishes class times and contact details. Customers book by phone; the website only needs to show information.
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Why this is enoughStart with prebuilt pages on a static host. There is no application server or database to operate.
Follow the flow
2 components in this view
Request a page
The browser requests a page; the host returns the published files. Arrows show the request direction.
Or select any component to explore it.
The tradeoff
Content changes need a new publish. The site cannot reserve places or show private customer information.
When to take the next step
Move on when customers need to book a class and the system must remember who took each place.
A small web app
Complexity is a choice, not a destination.
These are learning examples, not deployment checklists. Stay at the simplest stage that meets your needs. Authentication, access control, backups, restore testing, logs, and secret management matter from the first real deployment, even when a focused diagram leaves them out.
Microservices, streaming, and multi-region systems solve different constraints. They are not automatic next steps. Explore the architecture course when you need to investigate those tradeoffs.
