Chapter 3: Understanding Microsoft's Power Platform Architecture

In this chapter, we will dive deeper into the Power Platform architecture. Understanding this, as well as the required technology, environments, clients, and administration and monitoring, is key to enabling an architect and Power Platform implementation team to set up the foundation of a Power Platform solution. Following the recommendations and best practices at hand can lead to robust, reliable, and highly performant solution design and the best end user experience possible.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

• Understanding the Power Platform architecture
• Understanding the Power Platform clients
• Learning Power Platform administration and monitoring
• Presenting architectural best practices
• Contoso Inc. Power Platform architecture

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned many details about the Power Platform architecture, as well as environments, technology, clients, and administration and monitoring. This will provide you with the skills you need to design a high-level architecture for your own Power Platform-based solution.