November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
276 pages
7h 6m
English
Content preview from Learning Microsoft Azure Storage
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Understanding client libraries
When we created our storage account, the name of the account took the following format storageaccount.core.windows.net.
So, it is no surprise that all the storage service's endpoints took the following format:
- Blob: storageaccount.blob.core.windows.net
- Table: storageaccount.table.core.windows.net
- Queue: storageaccount.queue.core.windows.net
- File: storageaccount.file.core.windows.net
These endpoints are exposed through REST APIs to be accessed by any platform using HTTP.
That is why Microsoft provides several client libraries to give developers a high level of control over Azure Storage services.
Azure Storage supports many client libraries for many platforms, such as:
- .NET
- Java
- Node.js
- PHP
- Ruby
- Python
- C++ ...