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A Developer's Guide to .NET in Azure

By : Anuraj Parameswaran, Tamir Al Balkhi
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A Developer's Guide to .NET in Azure

By: Anuraj Parameswaran, Tamir Al Balkhi

Overview of this book

A Developer’s Guide to .NET in Azure helps you embark on a transformative journey through Microsoft Azure that is tailored to .NET developers. This book is a curated compendium that’ll enable you to master the creation of resilient, scalable, and highly available applications. The book is divided into four parts, with Part 1 demystifying Azure for you and emphasizing the portal's utility and seamless integration. The chapters in this section help you configure your workspace for optimal Azure synergy. You’ll then move on to Part 2, where you’ll explore serverless computing, microservices, containerization, Dapr, and Azure Kubernetes Service for scalability, and build pragmatic, cost-effective applications using Azure Functions and Container apps. Part 3 delves into data and storage, showing you how to utilize Azure Blob Storage for unstructured data, Azure SQL Database for structured data, and Azure Cosmos DB for document-oriented data. The final part teaches you about messaging and security, utilizing Azure App Configuration, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Key Vault, and Azure AD B2C for robust, secure applications. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered Azure's responsive infrastructure for exceptional applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: An Introduction to Your Environment
3
Part 2: Serverless and Microservices
8
Part 3: Data and Storage
12
Part 4: Messaging Mechanisms and Security

Introducing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL is a family of fully managed, secure, and intelligent relational database services. Azure SQL supports different application patterns such as moving from existing on-premises SQL Server workloads to modern cloud-native application development.

The Azure SQL family consists of three main services:

  • SQL Server on Azure VMs: This is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering from Microsoft Azure. As the name implies, this is an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) with SQL Server installed. This service is suitable in scenarios where you need 100% SQL Server compatibility and OS-level access. In the Azure portal, you can choose to set up SQL Server on Windows or Linux. Azure VMs are available with a free SQL Server license and you can use your own SQL Server license if you have one, also known as Bring Your Own License (BYOL). The advantage of this service offering is that you can move your existing on-premises database and application without...