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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers in the market currently, and also holds the second highest market share after AWS. Azure has a sophisticated set of services that will help you build fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. Hands-On Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through multiple PaaS services available in Azure, including App Services, Functions, and Service Fabric, and explain in detail how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. You will learn about how to maximize your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, and even search engines such as Azure Search. In the concluding chapters, this book covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager. By the end of the book, you will be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies, which will help make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)

Questions

  1. Do the terms "App Service" and "Web App" refer to the same Azure service?
  2. How many categories of App Service Plans are there currently in Azure?
  3. Why should Free and Shared tiers not be used for running production workloads?
  4. How many authentication providers can you set up in App Services?
  5. Is there any difference in hardware between the Basic, Standard, and Premium tiers?
  6. What do you need to enable to see logs in the Log stream?
  7. Can you attach a custom domain to each tier available in App Services?
  8. Can you attach more than one App Service to an App Service Plan?
  9. Which operating systems are available for App Services?
  10. Can you change operating system after App Service creation?
  11. Is it possible to deploy application files to App Services using FTPS? Where can you find the proper location address?
  12. What is the difference between user-level and app-level credentials in App Services?
  13. What is the difference between scaling up and scaling out?
  14. Let's say that you pay $50 for one instance of App Service per month. How much will you pay if you scale up to 10 instances?
  15. What is the purpose of using the Isolated tier in App Services?
  16. Is it possible to run a Go application in App Services?