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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)

Reasons to use Notification Hub

If you have ever had a chance to develop an application that was integrated with any notifications system, you probably know the challenges that are faced when creating such a product. In this chapter, I will try to introduce you to some basic concepts such as PNS, push notifications, and device registrations. This will ensure that we can easily start developing applications leveraging Notification Hub features and focus on learning details and hidden functionalities.

Exercises from this chapter are written for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications—however, the concepts presented are true also for other platforms such as Android or iOS.

Challenges for application design

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