We are living in the age of cloud computing. Many of the software paradigms that we learned and applied to our applications 10 years ago are now completely obsolete. The good old n-tier applications and development team simplicity have been replaced with distributed modules for the sake of maintainability and performance.
Without further ado, let's start preparing the scope of our application by setting up the architecture and exploring the concepts of the Azure platform.
We have started the development of our client application; it will require some additional views and modifications. In order to continue with the development, we first need to set up our backend. For our application, we will need a service backend that will do the following:
- Provide static metadata about products
- Manage user profiles and maintain user-specific information
- Allow users to upload and publicly share data
- Index and search user uploads and shares
- Notify...