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Review of compute options

Review of compute options

- [Instructor] Over the past few lessons, we've looked at several different ways we can build solutions. In particular, the different types of compute we have available. And by compute, I'm talking about everything from more traditional forms, such as virtual machines, to fully managed options such as Azure Functions and everything else in between such as Containers and AKS. With so many different options, it's sometimes difficult to understand which technology to use when. Some options have very definite use cases. So for example, Service Bus and API Manager, although technically still clusters compute, are used for message querying or combining and exposing APIs, whereas the choice between VM, Container, and Azure Function are a little bit more nuanced. Therefore, let's have a look at them again and consider how we can go about choosing. First, when choosing a compute model, we can consider the broader benefits we can…

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