June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
529 pages
15h 46m
English
CHAPTER 1 Hello, Service Fabric!
CHAPTER 5 Service Deployments and Upgrades
CHAPTER 6 Availability and Reliability
CHAPTER 7 Scalability and Performance
When Microsoft announced Windows Azure (which was later renamed Microsoft Azure) during the Professional Developers Conference 2008, I was working for a small Silicon Valley company that deployed acoustic sensors in crime-ridden neighborhoods to detect and report gunshots in near real-time. At the time of the announcement, our team had been deep in Azure development for months as early alpha adopters.
With Azure, we wanted to eliminate on-site server deployments, which was a major cost and a ...