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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

Azure Service Bus fundamentals

You have already learned about other messaging solutions, which allow you to ease communication between your services, and all are characterized by different features. In Azure Event Hubs, you were able to process thousands of messages per second, while with Azure Queue Storage, you were given a reliable and durable solution that you could use to work asynchronously on ingested data. In this chapter, we will discuss Azure Service Bus, a multi-tenant cloud messaging service that introduces advanced concepts such as first-in, first-out (FIFO) messaging, dead lettering, or transactions. It is an enterprise-class cloud component able to integrate many different services and applications. To understand the topic, we will start by comparing available messaging solutions.

Azure Service Bus versus other messaging services

In the previous chapters, we discussed the following services, which allowed us to process...