Running a Real World, Mission-Critical System on Azure

This talk examines how to run a mission-critical system reliably on Azure, drawing on a European gas network deployment. It discusses architecture choices, automated software and infrastructure delivery, monitoring, and resilience patterns such as retries and circuit breakers.

Syllabus

The European Gas network
Replacing the earlier system
Our software architecture principles
Services of the Gas storage
Zooming in on the Dispatch service
Demo: Dapr, Docker and other useful tools
Automated software delivery
Azure Architecture
Automated infrastructure deployment
Dealing with service outages, by adding resilience
The Retry pattern
The Circuit breaker pattern
Distributed caching