Storage accounts and virtual machines

Case Study: Set Up a Book Recommendation App in Azure

Maarten Van den Broeck

Senior Content Developer at DataCamp

ReadRadar workflow in Azure

Workflow of the ReadRadar app

Case Study: Set Up a Book Recommendation App in Azure

Storage accounts

  • Used to store data in the cloud securely
  • Acts as a virtual container for the data
  • Data can be managed and shared in Azure

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Case Study: Set Up a Book Recommendation App in Azure

Storage types in Azure

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Case Study: Set Up a Book Recommendation App in Azure

Storage types in Azure

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Case Study: Set Up a Book Recommendation App in Azure

Storage types in Azure

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Case Study: Set Up a Book Recommendation App in Azure

Storage types in Azure

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Case Study: Set Up a Book Recommendation App in Azure

Virtual machines

  • Digital version of a physical computer
  • Used to host and run the recommendation model
  • Individual VM for testing, development, and smaller tasks

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Case Study: Set Up a Book Recommendation App in Azure

Data Science virtual machine (DSVM)

  • Customized VM image for data science
  • Pre-configured with common data science tools
    • E.g. PyTorch for machine learning

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Case Study: Set Up a Book Recommendation App in Azure

Keeping track of resources

  • Common practice to use naming conventions, suffixes or prefixes

  • Azure features:

    • Resource groups
      • e.g. applying RBAC collectively
    • Resource tags
      • e.g. 'project: ReadRadar'

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Case Study: Set Up a Book Recommendation App in Azure

Let's practice!

Case Study: Set Up a Book Recommendation App in Azure

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