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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

What you need for this book

You need a good spec machine with any version of Windows from Window 7 to Windows 10 installed on it.

Visual Studio 2015 is the development environment that you require for this book, and all features required for this book are available from the free Community edition (https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx).

Azure SDK for Visual Studio 2015 is required, and you can download it at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/.

You will sign up for a Microsoft Azure subscription at the start of the book if you have not already got one: there are various paid options, but a one-month trial is available.

There is also the Visual Studio Dev Essentials initiative (https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-dev-essentials-vs.aspx), which gives us access to many benefits, such as an Azure subscription with $25 prepaid monthly credit.