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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)

Mobile Notifications with Notification Hub

Push notifications are one of the main features of many mobile apps. They facilitate informing a user about a wait for action, or maybe about a temporary discount that is available only for minutes within an application. While each mobile OS vendor has its own service for such notifications, it's always nice to configure such a feature in one place, so we don't have to worry about changes in the underlying API or the parameters required. Azure Notification Hub simplifies things greatly by providing a single service that acts as a single endpoint for our mobile applications, easing both development and testing.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Notification Hub and its benefits
  • Notification architecture and the best patterns for sending a notification to mobile apps
  • Registering a device within Notification...