Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure

Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that supports many different programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. This book starts by helping you set up a professional development environments in the cloud and integrating them with your local environment to achieve improved efficiency. You will move on to create front-end and back-end services, and then build cross-platform applications using Azure. Next you’ll get to grips with advanced techniques used to analyze usage data and automate billing operations. Following on from that, you will gain knowledge of how you can extend your on-premise solution to the cloud and move data in a pipeline. In a nutshell, this book will show you how to build high-quality, end-to-end services using Microsoft Azure. By the end of this book, you will have the skillset needed to successfully set up, develop, and manage a full-stack Azure infrastructure.

Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Building Basic Services

CloudMakers.XYZ

Setting up the development environment

Implementing the development process

Provisioning development environments for mobility

Automating repetitive operations

Summary

Enhancing the Hybrid Process

CloudMakers.XYZ

Service Manager (classic) mode versus Resource Manager mode

Configuring a Resource mode Virtual Network for the frontend servers

Configuring a Service mode (classic) Virtual Network for the backend servers

Connecting two virtual networks with site-to-site connection

Configuring Office connectivity with a point-to-site VPN

Deploy a Windows Azure Virtual Machine in an ARM Virtual Network

Managing virtual networks with Operational Insight

Summary

Building the Frontend

It's all about data

Polyglot Persistence

Scenario

Writing catalogs into Azure DocumentDB

Building up your web frontend with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC

Searching in catalogs via Azure Search

Storing unstructured data in Azure Storage

Speeding up data access with caching and Azure Redis

Persisting a shopping cart with Azure Table Storage

Publishing your application into Azure web apps

Summary

Building the Backend

CloudMakers.XYZ scenario evolution

Handling orders

Outsourcing Identity and Access Management

Summary

Building the Mobile Experience

The technical community case study

Writing mobile applications

Building a mobile app with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova

The need for a fast and easy solution

Introduction to mobile apps

Getting data from the service

Sending data to the service

Azure and Node.js

Summary

Building the API Layer

CloudMakers.XYZ scenario evolution

Building the API

Deploying the API

Using Azure API Management

Debugging complex API workflows

Summary

Working with Messages

Dealing the future with commands

Messages and queues

The scenario

Sending messages with queues

Processing messages with workers

Dealing the past with events

Per-message event handling

Per-stream event handling

Summary

Deploying Solutions in Azure

Azure Resource Manager

Writing the template

Programming the template

Organizing deployment tasks with the Deploy to Azure button

Summary

Index

Customer Reviews

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Scenario

Scenario is based on AdventureWorks Cycles (AWC), a common database and fictional company used by Microsoft over the years to demonstrate the possibilities of the relational database Microsoft SQL Server.

AWC is a large, multinational manufacturing company. The company manufactures and sells metal and composite bicycles to North American, European, and Asian commercial markets.

The company needs a web application so that individual customers can navigate through the catalog, read product characteristics, view product photos, and buy a bicycle through the shopping cart.

AWC has a company ERP that it uses for all daily operations and orders via legacy channels. It requires all information published on the web store to come from the ERP. This is a classic client-server application heavily based on a relational SQL Server database. Over time, the application was migrated over the cloud, moving the database to Azure SQL Database PaaS service. To recreate the ERP experience, it is possible...

Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure

Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure

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