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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)

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Azure App Services, covers how to work with and develop web applications, monitoring, and diagnosis.

Chapter 2, Azure WebJobs, explains how to develop jobs co-hosted with Azure App Services.

Chapter 3, Deploying Web Applications as Containers, explains how to develop a web application and host it within a container using Azure App Services.

Chapter 4, Distributed Applications and Microservices with Service Fabric, is a basic introduction to a microservice platform called Azure Service Fabric.

Chapter 5, Using Azure Search, explains how to develop a search engine using Azure Search and utilize it in your application.

Chapter 6, Mobile Notifications with Notification Hub, covers the development of applications that leverage push notifications.

Chapter 7, Serverless and Azure Functions, outlines the building of applications based on the FaaS model.

Chapter 8, Integrating Different Components with Logic Apps, discusses the integration of different parts of your system using Azure Logic Apps.

Chapter 9, Swiss Army Knife - Azure Cosmos DB, covers the utilization of a modern storage solution with multiple APIs and a consistency model.

Chapter 10, Reactive Architecture with Event Grid, demonstrates how to reverse a control with another serverless Azure component called Azure Event Grid.

Chapter 11, Using Azure Storage - Tables, Queues, Files, and Blobs, covers a common Azure storage service with many different features.

Chapter 12, Big Data Pipeline - Azure Event Hub, explains how to create applications handling thousands of requests per second.

Chapter 13, Real-Time Data Analysis - Azure Stream Analytics, explains how to perform analyses on a stream of data.

Chapter 14, Enterprise Integration - Azure Service Bus, introduces an enterprise-class Azure service for messaging.

Chapter 15, Using Application Insights to Monitor Your Applications, explains how to use Azure Application Insights to log data from different Azure services as well as from your own applications.

Chapter 16, SQL in Azure - Azure SQL, introduces a relational database PaaS offering that is available in Azure.

Chapter 17, Big Data Storage - Azure Data Lake, introduces a limitless storage service for storing schemaless data.

Chapter 18, Scaling Azure Applications, covers more advanced topics on scaling applications and how scaling works in Azure.

Chapter 19, Serving Static Content Using Azure CDN, introduces your very own CDN hosted within Azure.

Chapter 20, Distributing Load with Azure Traffic Manager, explains how to achieve high availability and offload traffic using Azure Traffic Manager.

Chapter 21, Tips and Tricks for Azure, provides a bunch of tips for working with Azure and Azure resources.