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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)

Using Azure Storage - Tables, Queues, Files, and Blobs

PaaS in Azure is not only about App Services or containers. This particular cloud offers much more, especially when talking about different options for storage, messaging solutions, or monitoring. With services such as Event Hub, Azure Storage, or Application Insights, we're given a complete set of cloud components that offer great flexibility and simplify developing complete, scalable, and easy-to-maintain applications.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Using Azure Storage solutions
  • Storing structured data with Azure Storage Tables
  • Implementing fully managed file shares with Azure Storage Files
  • Using queues with Azure Storage Queues
  • Using Azure Storage Blobs for object storage