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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 chapter, you learned what CDNs are and how they may help you in achieving better performance and user experience for your web applications. We have configured an Azure CDN instance, and saw how to optimize serving content by compressing it. After reading this chapter, you should be able to filter particular content for particular countries, and be able to develop proper caching rules, so that you can define how your instance will behave.

In the next chapter, which is the last chapter in this book describing Azure services, we will cover one more advanced scenario—distributing load and securing data from outages with Azure Traffic Manager.