High performance and security (amongst other things) are the 2 non-functional requirements that usually first come to mind when we design an infrastructure architecture for the applications we develop. The usual 2 concepts that pop up with these 2 requirements are load balancing and firewalls. How can you easily achieve and check these 2 concepts when you are developing your architecture in Azure? One component that you can use for this is the Azure Application Gateway. Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer (OSI layer 7 load balancer) that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Some of its features include (but not limited to): URL-based routing: make routing decisions based on additional attributes of an…