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Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure

By : Freato
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Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure

By: Freato

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that supports many different programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. This book starts by helping you set up a professional development environments in the cloud and integrating them with your local environment to achieve improved efficiency. You will move on to create front-end and back-end services, and then build cross-platform applications using Azure. Next you’ll get to grips with advanced techniques used to analyze usage data and automate billing operations. Following on from that, you will gain knowledge of how you can extend your on-premise solution to the cloud and move data in a pipeline. In a nutshell, this book will show you how to build high-quality, end-to-end services using Microsoft Azure. By the end of this book, you will have the skillset needed to successfully set up, develop, and manage a full-stack Azure infrastructure.

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Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure
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Jun, 2016 | 352 pages
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Table of Contents (10 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Facing new challenges
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Free Chapter
1
1. Building Basic Services
1. Building Basic Services
CloudMakers.XYZ
Setting up the development environment
Implementing the development process
Provisioning development environments for mobility
Automating repetitive operations
Summary
2
2. Enhancing the Hybrid Process
2. Enhancing the Hybrid Process
CloudMakers.XYZ
Service Manager (classic) mode versus Resource Manager mode
Configuring a Resource mode Virtual Network for the frontend servers
Configuring a Service mode (classic) Virtual Network for the backend servers
Connecting two virtual networks with site-to-site connection
Configuring Office connectivity with a point-to-site VPN
Deploy a Windows Azure Virtual Machine in an ARM Virtual Network
Managing virtual networks with Operational Insight
Summary
3
3. Building the Frontend
3. Building the Frontend
It's all about data
Polyglot Persistence
Scenario
Writing catalogs into Azure DocumentDB
Building up your web frontend with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC
Searching in catalogs via Azure Search
Storing unstructured data in Azure Storage
Speeding up data access with caching and Azure Redis
Persisting a shopping cart with Azure Table Storage
Publishing your application into Azure web apps
Summary
4
4. Building the Backend
4. Building the Backend
CloudMakers.XYZ scenario evolution
Handling orders
Outsourcing Identity and Access Management
Summary
5
5. Building the Mobile Experience
5. Building the Mobile Experience
The technical community case study
Writing mobile applications
Building a mobile app with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova
The need for a fast and easy solution
Introduction to mobile apps
Getting data from the service
Sending data to the service
Azure and Node.js
Summary
6
6. Building the API Layer
6. Building the API Layer
CloudMakers.XYZ scenario evolution
Building the API
Deploying the API
Using Azure API Management
Debugging complex API workflows
Summary
7
7. Working with Messages
7. Working with Messages
Dealing the future with commands
Messages and queues
The scenario
Sending messages with queues
Processing messages with workers
Dealing the past with events
Per-message event handling
Per-stream event handling
Summary
8
8. Deploying Solutions in Azure
8. Deploying Solutions in Azure
Azure Resource Manager
Writing the template
Programming the template
Organizing deployment tasks with the Deploy to Azure button
Summary
9
Index
Index

Chapter 1. Building Basic Services

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is probably the next (or current) big thing in computing that is here to stay in the future of software and services. With PaaS, companies can abstract their services from the underlying IT infrastructure, investing the majority of the effort in the core business instead of managing several building blocks, often with repetitive actions and operations.

However, Azure is not just PaaS, and in this chapter, we are going to use IaaS instead. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is a model-provisioning IT low-level infrastructure (such as virtual machines) that works without having to manage the entire stack as it takes place on-premise.

Building Basic Services

A figure showing what customers manage (blue) in different scenarios.

In this chapter, we present the first scenario of the book, where a fictional company wants to start up, minimizing the initial IT investment as well as the time to market. We learn how several Azure building blocks (such as virtual machines, Visual Studio Online, Azure Resource Manager, RemoteApp, Azure Storage, among others) can be combined in order to provide a set of foundation platforms for a software development company.

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