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Windows Azure programming patterns for Start-ups

By : Riccardo Becker
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Windows Azure programming patterns for Start-ups

By: Riccardo Becker

Overview of this book

Leverage different Windows Azure components together with your existing Microsoft .NET skills to fully take advantage of the power of Windows Azure. Use this book to start small and end big by creating and using storage, cloud services, sql databases, networking, caching and other innovative technology to realize your first top-class Windows Azure service! "Windows Azure for Start-ups" is an incremental guide that will take you from the essentials of the Windows Azure platform up to the realization of your own cloud services running on the platform. You will learn how to apply different technologies of the Windows Azure platform with the help of examples all focusing on one single fictitious start-up scenario. This book is centred around a fictitious company called Geotopia that wants to build a brand new social network by using the Windows Azure platform. It will take the reader from the theory and rationale behind Windows Azure right to building services and coding C#. The books starts by outlining the concepts of Windows Azure. It then demonstrates how to set up a development environment and how to build your application by using different storage mechanisms, applying different features from the Windows Azure platform and ending with the newest features explained from the latest release. Windows Azure for Startups will help you take full advantage of the Windows Azure platform and bring your new service online as quickly as possible.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Windows Azure Programming Patterns for Start-ups
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter extensively describes the use of Enterprise Library in your Windows Azure environment. It outlines in detail what additions are made that resulted in the Enterprise Library Integration Pack for Windows Azure. A detailed autoscaling scenario is explained through code samples and snippets. The internal use of the Autoscaling Application Block is explained, as is how to apply this in the Geotopia scenario. Several circumstances describe when the application needs to be scaled, sometimes through constraint rules and sometimes by using reactive rules, which act on performance metrics. The phenomenon of throttling is explained and so is how to use it in your own application.

Analogous to the traditional Enterprise Library, the Enterprise Library Integration Pack is highly extensible, and this chapter also shows how to extend the pack by demonstrating a new action. Next, the chapter explains how to save the configuration settings of the Autoscaling Application Block in blob...