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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)

Summary

In this short chapter, you learned the basic concepts of Azure Service Bus including queues, topics, SDK, and more advanced features like dead lettering, sessions, and transactions. There are still many things to learn: asynchronous messaging, Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), and advanced transaction scenarios. In general, it is a great service for both simple and critical scenarios as it gives you enough flexibility to adjust it to most applications, and at the same time it is quite easy to learn how to get started. Remember, you can use the basic tier for the simplest use cases, which gives you a cheap and reliable solution, a much richer option than Azure Storage Queue. In the next chapter, we will focus on monitoring services with Azure Application Insights.