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Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure

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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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The technical community case study


SQL Saturday is a technical event, where IT developers and professionals, typically in hourly-based sessions, present technical content about SQL Server and other data-oriented content. It is a community event organized in a city, by some tech people once a year. It's a spare time activity for those tech people, based on sponsorship and volunteer contribution.

There are many organizational issues: one of these is giving all information to attendees, such as general information, day scheduling, session information and session feedback. In general, all of this information can be given on paper: print off the scheduling and post it on the wall or print sheets so every attendee can take it. When the session is done, everyone picks up an evaluation sheet, completing it by using a pen and then putting it in a closed box. In this case, organizers need to rearrange all the sheets, read and compile a temporary Excel workbook, and have event and session statistics...