This course prepares you for the realities of building and shipping production applications on Microsoft Azure. Designed for recent graduates and early-career developers, it covers the essential skills employers expect but classrooms rarely teach: cloud architecture thinking, DevOps automation, and modern security practices.
You will start by exploring how distributed systems differ from local development, learning how network latency, horizontal scaling, and stateless design shape real-world application architecture. From there, you will build event-driven applications using Azure Functions, evaluating consumption-based pricing models and cold-start trade-offs, before containerizing applications with Docker and deploying them to Azure container services. The course then moves into DevOps and observability, where you will automate build, test, and deployment workflows using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, and monitor production applications with Azure Application Insights. Finally, you will implement modern security practices by integrating Azure Entra ID for authentication and configuring managed identities to eliminate stored credentials from your deployed applications.
Each module includes realistic case studies, guided hands-on activities, and graded assessments that mirror professional development workflows. By course end, you will have the cloud development skills that hiring managers actively seek.
