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Azure for Developers. - Second Edition

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
Book Image

Azure for Developers. - Second Edition

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is currently one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers thanks to its sophisticated set of services for building fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. This second edition of Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through the various PaaS services available in Azure, including Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure SQL Databases, showing you how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. Throughout the book, you’ll discover ways to enhance your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, containerized solutions, and even search engines such as Azure Cognitive Search. That’s not all!! The book also covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door. By the end of this Azure book, you’ll be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies to make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
1
Part 1: PaaS and Containers
8
Part 2: Serverless and Reactive Architecture
14
Part 3: Storage, Messaging, and Monitoring
22
Part 4: Performance, Scalability, and Maintainability

Using Azure Storage in a solution

Most applications cannot work without a storage solution. This can be any kind of database—relational, document, file, or graph. Most of them require some skills to be able to configure and start working with them. For now, we have covered one storage solution available in Azure—namely, Azure Cosmos DB, which is a serverless database, where the only thing needed was to set a correct throughput value. Of course, Azure offers much more in the way of storage services, of which the most common is Azure Storage. It is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud component (though some define it as serverless, mostly because of a lack of servers) that can be used in four different ways. In this chapter, we will cover all of them so that you become familiar with their capabilities and features.

Different Azure Storage services

Azure Storage consists of the following four different services:

  • Table storage...