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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

Building Resilient Applications with Dapr

Dapr, also known as Distributed Application Runtime, is a runtime environment that is event-driven and portable. It simplifies the process of building applications that are both stateful and stateless and can operate on the cloud or edge, enabling any developer to create resilient applications. Dapr was initiated and announced by Microsoft on October 16, 2019; however, Dapr is not owned by Microsoft and is being incubated at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Dapr is an open source project and is hosted on GitHub. Dapr provides APIs or building blocks that help developers build microservices using industry best practices and patterns.

In this chapter, we will learn about the three main building blocks. In the context of Dapr, a building block refers to an HTTP or Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC) API that can be accessed from code and utilizes one or more Dapr components. These building blocks are designed to tackle typical...