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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)

Storing data with Azure Storage Tables

We will start our journey with Azure Storage capabilities by learning something about Table Storage. If you want to store unstructured data with almost limitless capacity and with high demands regarding availability and durability, this service is for you. In this section, you will learn how to start developing applications using Table Storage and the best practices for storing data and achieving the best performance for both writing and reading it. You will also see how to efficiently query it, and what is important when designing services using this Azure Storage capability.

Creating an Azure Storage service

To get started, we have to actually create an instance of Azure Storage. To...