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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)

Understanding Cosmos DB

When working with storage, you have probably heard about different kinds; relational databases, NoSQL databases, graph databases, document databases. There are plenty of different models available, with different characteristics, when it comes to storing data. If you need to easily maintain relationships between tables, in most cases you will choose something such as SQL Server. On the other hand, maybe you would like to save each record in the JSON file format, where the best solution would be an instance of MongoDB. While the choice is all yours, the biggest problem is that you need to have a different kind of service to serve the same purposestoring data. This is where Azure Cosmos DB comes into play. With its multi-model capabilities, flexibility, and scalability it is a great choice for globally distributed and highly responsive applications...