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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)

Implementing fully managed file shares with Azure Files

When in need of creating a file share, which can be accessed by different people, you often have to either buy some hardware, which will be set up and configured for such functionality, or use third-party solutions, which can be hard to customize, or expensive. With Azure Storage, you can quickly develop a solution that is almost limitless in terms of capacity, offers industry standard protocols, and can be quickly provisioned, and ready to use.

Azure Files concepts

Azure Files has some basic concepts that create the whole picture of a service. In fact, it is designed to replace current on-premise file servers in terms of functionality and performance. The main difference...