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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. What tiers are available during account creation when selecting Blob as an account type?
  2. What must you include in a query against Table Storage to achieve the maximum performance?
  3. What are the available redundancy models for storage accounts?
  4. What is the difference between blob and file storage?
  5. Can you store binary files using Blob Storage?
  6. How long does a message in Queue Storage live before it is removed?
  7. What is the maximum size of a message in Queue Storage?
  8. What is the maximum size of the PartitionKey column value?
  9. What concurrency model is implemented in Table Storage?
  10. What is the difference between Azure Files storage and on-premise filesystem?