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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)

Analytics module

Multiple ways to integrate Azure Application Insights with different services (as well as a custom application) is not the only big feature of this service. Another important and crucial thing is the analytics language available in the Analytics module. It is an interactive query language, which enables you to explore logged data easily, using a simple and intuitive syntax. Another great thing about it is that you do not need any additional tools to get started—once you store traces, exceptions, or requests, it is available out-of-the-box—the only thing you need to do is write a query. In this section, we will cover both the query language and the module, so you can start writing your own queries and discover many different dimensions available in stored logs.

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