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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Azure-Well Architected Framework - designing mission critical workloads in practice

Paweł Siwek

Is your multi-cloud strategy actually increasing deployment complexity and downtime? Master the Azure Well-Architected Framework to design mission-critical workloads that prioritize maximum reliability.

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#1 about 5 min

Embracing software reliability with the well-architected framework

Everyday app failures highlight the need for robust software engineering practices.

#2 about 2 min

Defining attributes of mission-critical business workloads

Mission-critical systems maximize availability over cost to prevent severe business impact during outages.

#3 about 2 min

Establishing availability SLOs and recovery expectations

Setting practical service level objectives and negotiating recovery policies ensures business alignment.

#4 about 3 min

Evaluating application design patterns in microservices

Deploying microservices requires structured design strategies to handle sudden transaction spikes without failure.

#5 about 3 min

Isolating failures using scale units and bulkheads

Scaling individual infrastructure components and separating resource domains maintains performance when specific features degrade.

#6 about 2 min

Managing asynchronous communications and load leveling

Queues and message brokers orchestrate distributed transactions while buffering unmanageable usage storms.

#7 about 3 min

Handling transient cloud errors with circuit breakers

Implementing intelligent retries and circuit breaker proxies prevents wasted compute cycles on downstream failures.

#8 about 4 min

Deploying layered observability and synthetic monitoring

Streaming full telemetry data into centralized analytics workspaces enables proactive health modeling and accurate uptime tracking.

#9 about 4 min

Designing resilient networking and region redundancy

Performance routing features and smart entry point configurations outperform purely geographic fallbacks for global APIs.

#10 about 2 min

Selecting appropriate container orchestration and data storage

Managed container runtimes and distributed databases matching actual persistence needs lower long-term maintenance burdens.

#11 about 3 min

Evaluating final tradeoffs in resilient cloud architectures

Advanced availability strategies like multi-cloud deployments introduce severe pipeline complexity that outweighs intended resiliency benefits.

Matching moments

5:25 min

Implementing redundancy, failover, and architectural load balancing patterns

Mihaela-Roxana Ghidersa · LIVE

9:24 min

Azure well-architected framework cost optimization disciplines

Paweł Siwek Paweł Siwek · Europe 2026 Virtual

2:20 min

Architecting platform infrastructure for high availability and scale

Filippos Kyprianou +1 · WWC 2023

1:37 min

Defining reliability through the AWS well-architected framework

Florian Mair Florian Mair · WWC 2024

3:03 min

Assessing cloud workloads using well-architected framework reviews

Bruno Amaro Almeida · WWC 2022

5:05 min

Balancing strict application boundaries with resilient execution architectures

André Behrens André Behrens · WWC Europe 2026

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