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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)

Azure Service Bus fundamentals

You have already learned about other messaging solutions, which allow you to ease communication between your services, and all are characterized by different features. In Azure Event Hub, you were able to process thousands of messages per second, while with Azure Storage Queues you were given a reliable and durable solution, which you could use to work asynchronously on ingested data. In this chapter, we will discuss Azure Service Bus, a multitenant cloud messaging service that introduces advanced concepts like first-in,first-out(FIFO) messaging, dead lettering, or transactions. It is an enterprise-class cloud component able to integrate many different services and applications.

Azure Service Bus versus other messaging services

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