Additional Foreword

It is with great pleasure that I have the honor of providing this foreword to Hardening Azure Applications. It seems only logical that the authors would write this book, because prior to their work in Azure, they worked in the middleware domain defined by BizTalk Server and other .NET Servers. It was there that the authors honed their technical skills and pushed the envelope in terms of how complex apps could be applied in a pre-cloud context. When I first met the authors in 2009 during an onsite at Microsoft, the word was spreading about Azure. At the time, the notion of moving from an on-premises or collocated server infrastructure to the cloud seemed almost heretical.

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