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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)

Questions

  1. What is the difference between Reliable services and Reliable actors?
  2. What is the difference between stateless and stateful services?
  3. What one has to be implemented to introduce its very own communication channel in SF?
  4. What is node type in SF?
  5. Can you scale (up/out) node types individually?
  6. Can you select a VM SKU when creating a cluster?
  7. What are the two types of node security in SF?
  8. What is the difference between cluster, application, service, partition, and replica?
  9. Why does SF advocate creating a node with at least five VMs?
  10. What is the reliability tier in SF?