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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.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

Chapter 3. Building the Frontend

You learned how to build a comprehensive frontend composing of Azure services. This is an advanced scenario, using the Platform-as-a-Service services of Azure to reduce costs. Also, collateral services are used to improve the performance of the application.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Catalog persisted to DocumentDB
  • Advanced catalog search with Azure Search
  • Blob storage and CDN for image files
  • Catalog cached with Redis
  • Web apps with app service