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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
Book Image

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)

Monitoring different platforms

The strength of Azure Application Insights is its ability to monitor simultaneously from different platforms. You can choose from ASP.NET pages, Java, Node.JS, or even Python or Ruby (however, there are some languages and frameworks officially supported by Application Insights teams and some are supported by the community). The point is, it is platform-agnostic. When you, in fact, need the implementation of the communication channel, with an instrumentation key you can easily send data to an instance of a service without additional keys and an extended configuration. In this section, we will focus on sending information from different platforms, so you will be able to start integration in your projects easily on your own.

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