Application Services Within Azure eCommerce

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Your eCommerce with Clarity, or any Azure eCommerce solution, is typically going to leverage the Application Services within the Azure platform. Application Services are essentially a componentized way of representing the infrastructure that your application will use for the CPU, RAM and the hard drive for the actual application itself.

The App Services within Microsoft Azure are really robust, allowing you to start out with a very low cost but highly capable App Service that can be scaled over time. The best part is that scaling can happen dynamically, by being responsive to different loads of visitors and resource utilization.

Apart from scaling, processes like running or failover may be configured according to any kind of infrastructure needs, depending on the occasion. Azure also provides the ability to present different sets of infrastructures, based on where people are physically located in the world, and reduce latency. Ultimately, the App Services for Azure eCommerce are a key component because they effectively present the web application or eCommerce platform to the end users.

App Services are essentially the final step before all of the infrastructure on an Azure eCommerce set up and configuration get presented to the end user. A major benefit of Azure App Services is how they are absolutely load balanceable and scalable. In other words, instead of having a single resource that might get bottlenecked and overloaded, it's possible to set up multiple resources that share the load and maintain stability.

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Scaling Options for Azure eCommerce

Whenever the load of visitors that come to your eCommerce site gets high enough, additional App Services can spin up dynamically. This is practically a scaling out capability. Another option is to enable scaling up, such that as the load increases, the resources (the app services themselves) increase in their capacity. The App Services get stronger, if you will, for the same number of resources, which is a process referred to as scaling up. In a nutshell, on a scale out you add more actual nodes or resources called App Services, or you can choose to scale up and add more capability to those existing app services.

These options provide infinite scalability which has been tested within the Microsoft Azure infrastructure configuration. The Microsoft Azure team has conducted and run production environments for many years at a remarkably significant extent. Therefore, best practices and industry standards into current practice have been meticulously validated.

This includes things like caching or the ability to leverage constantly available resources that are already spun up and available for immediate response times. One of the biggest drivers of value in eCommerce and virtually any web application is performance. The application needs to be extremely performant and intelligent; it's basically impossible to have a successful eCommerce application without ensuring a solid level of performance that can be utilized effectively.

It's one thing to have a very performing app in the beginning, when only 10 or 100 people are concurrently using the application. As it grows, you get to 10,000 and 100,000 people simultaneously using the application. In numerous occasions, applications have to be rearchitected and rebuilt just to be able to properly function at that scale. For this reason, scaling capabilities are ideally built-in the application due to the difficulty of later implementation.

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Azure eCommerce Advantages for Your Organization

A valuable aspect of Azure eCommerce, when configured and optimized properly, is how it allows you to leverage the infrastructure capabilities that the Microsoft Azure team have built and validated. Consequently, they pass those benefits along and you may reap them without having to invest hundreds, thousands or millions of dollars into testing and validating infrastructure on your own. The overall idea is that fundamental work is already done for you. These abilities are readily available, essentially at the flip of a switch, by using the best practice guides that are available from the Microsoft Azure team.

Clarity's goal is to highlight the benefits of collaboration with a Microsoft Azure eCommerce team who has experience and expertise around leveraging these best practices. Regardless of where you're starting with your Azure eCommerce application, we advise you to consider the long-term strategy of your organization. When selecting a suitable application, evaluate whether or not the team you're working with has the capabilities to take advantage of all best practices and has built those into their Azure eCommerce platform.

At the end of the day, there are many options for how you can scale out, scale up or leverage load balancing across your eCommerce platform. We strongly recommend Azure as an infrastructure partner because it has consistently delivered just about the most powerful and fastest-growing cloud eCommerce platform available on the market. Azure also tightly integrates with .NET backend, which is a particularly stable and secure backend to ride on.

We hope this article was informative and covered your areas of interest. If you have any further questions or would like to review additional information in detail, we certainly welcome you to utilize the resources below. You're also welcome to reach out to one of our friendly and knowledgeable experts, who would be happy to discuss your project and provide assistance with Azure eCommerce and App Services.