Book description
Microsoft Azure is a cloud service with good scalability, pay-as-you-go service, and a low start-up cost. Based on Windows, it includes an operating system, developer services, and a familiar data model.
Azure in Action is a fast-paced tutorial that introduces cloud development and the Azure platform. The book starts with the logical and physical architecture of an Azure app, and quickly moves to the core storage services—BLOB storage, tables, and queues. Then, it explores designing and scaling frontend and backend services that run in the cloud. Through clear, crisp examples, you'll discover all facets of Azure, including the development fabric, web roles, worker roles, BLOBs, table storage, queues, and more.
This book requires basic C# skills. No prior exposure to cloud development or Azure is needed.
About the Technology
Microsoft Azure is a cloud service with good scalability, pay-as-you-go service, and a low start-up cost. Based on Windows, it includes an operating system, developer services, and a familiar data model.
About the Book
Azure in Action is a fast-paced tutorial that introduces cloud development and the Azure platform. The book starts with the logical and physical architecture of an Azure app, and quickly moves to the core storage services—BLOB storage, tables, and queues. Then, it explores designing and scaling frontend and backend services that run in the cloud. Through clear, crisp examples, you'll discover all facets of Azure, including the development fabric, web roles, worker roles, BLOBs, table storage, queues, and more.
What's Inside
- Data storage and manipulation
- Using message queues
- Deployment and management
- Azure's data model
About the Reader
This book requires basic C# skills. No prior exposure to cloud development or Azure is needed.
About the Authors
A Microsoft MVP specializing in high-transaction databases, Chris Hay is a popular speaker and founder of the Cambridge, UK, .NET usergroup. Brian H. Prince is a Microsoft Architect Evangelist who helps customers adopt the cloud.
Quotes
Easy to read, easy to recommend.
- Eric Nelson, Microsoft UK
I doubt even the Azure team knows all of this.
- Mark Monster, Rubicon
An educational ride at an amusement park--great information and lots of humor.
- Michael Wood, Strategic Data Systems
Highly recommended, like all Manning books.
- James Hatheway, i365, A Seagate Company
This book will get you in the cloud...and beyond.
- Christian Siegers, Cap Gemini
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- Author Online
- About the Authors
- About the Cover Illustration
- Part 1. Welcome to the cloud
- Chapter 1. Getting to know Windows Azure
- Chapter 2. Your first steps with a web role
- Part 2. Understanding the Azure service model
- Chapter 3. How Windows Azure works
- Chapter 4. It’s time to run with the service
- Chapter 5. Configuring your service
- Part 3. Running your site with web roles
- Chapter 6. Scaling web roles
- Chapter 7. Running full-trust, native, and other code
- Part 4. Working with BLOB storage
- Chapter 8. The basics of BLOBs
- Chapter 9. Uploading and downloading BLOBs
- Chapter 10. When the BLOB stands alone
- Part 5. Working with structured data
- Chapter 11. The Table service, a whole different entity
- Chapter 12. Working with the Table service REST API
- Chapter 13. SQL Azure and relational data
- Chapter 14. Working with different types of data
- Part 6. Doing work with messages
- Chapter 15. Processing with worker roles
- Chapter 16. Messaging with the queue
- Chapter 17. Connecting in the cloud with AppFabric
- Chapter 18. Running a healthy service in the cloud
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: Azure in Action
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2010
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781935182481
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