Modern Architecture in the Cloud of 2026
summary
Shows an Azure-centric set of blueprints: a WordPress deployment on AKS with ACR, Key Vault over private endpoints and Front Door for global WAF/CDN, and variants using Azure Container Instances, Container Apps, App Service and Functions. Recommends declarative IaC, immutable replace-not-patch deploys, SLOs + OpenTelemetry for observability, hub-and-spoke landing zones (platform vs application), and policy-driven zero trust. Calls out region resource limits and that AKS automatic and container apps reclaim ops work but private endpoints and telemetry volume increase costs. AI adds an API gateway for AI and model evaluation gates.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 1:10Cloud provider diversity and context
- 3:38Modern architecture foundations
- 8:13Evolution of deployment patterns
- 12:11Cloud native principles
- 17:14Reference architecture for WordPress
- 19:06Compute options comparison
- 23:41Serverless reference architecture
- 24:48AI integration in cloud architecture
- 26:34Landing zones and governance
- 28:43Well-Architected Framework pillars
- 33:27Portability and modernization strategies
- 35:57Conclusion and key takeaways
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