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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)

Chapter 11: Using Azure Storage – Tables, Queues, Files, and Blobs

  1. Hot and cold—the archive can be selected on a blob level once the account is created.
  2. You must include both a Partition Key and a Row Key.
  3. The following models are available: LRS, ZRS, GRS, and RA-GRS.
  4. File Storage works more like a file share while Blob Storage acts as storage for application and user data. They also have different pricing models.
  5. Yes, you can.
  6. A message will be available for up to a maximum of 7 days.
  7. The maximum size of a message is 64 KBs.
  8. The maximum size of the Partition Key is 1 KB.
  9. In Table Storage, we work with the optimistic concurrency model.
  10. With Azure Files, you can easily scale out your shares by adding additional accounts. When using on-premises shares, you have to buy, install, and configure the hardware before you use it.
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