Azure Performance Engineering Handbook

The Azure Performance Engineering Handbook is a practical guide for architects, SREs, DevOps engineers, and cloud developers who design and operate production-grade Azure systems. It focuses on real-world performance challenges-latency, throughput, scalability, and cost tradeoffs-and shows how to address them systematically.

This book covers performance-aware architecture, baselining and observability with Azure Monitor and Application Insights, workload-specific tuning across compute, storage, networking, and data platforms, and intelligent scaling strategies for enterprise workloads. It also emphasizes continuous performance engineering, capacity planning, and cost-efficient optimization aligned with modern DevOps practices.

Written from hands-on production experience, this handbook helps you move beyond reactive firefighting and build Azure workloads that are predictable, resilient, and scalable.

Ideal for professionals responsible for designing, running, and optimizing critical Azure workloads.