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Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure

By : Freato, Marco Parenzan

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Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure

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By: Freato, Marco Parenzan

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.

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

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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. 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. 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. Building the Backend

4. Building the Backend

CloudMakers.XYZ scenario evolution

Handling orders

Outsourcing Identity and Access Management

Summary

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. 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. 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. 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

Index

Index

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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

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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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