Book description
The Windows Azure Platform has rapidly established itself as one of the most sophisticated cloud computing platforms available. With Microsoft working to continually update their product and keep it at the cutting edge, the future looks bright—if you have the skills to harness it. In particular, new features such as remote desktop access, dynamic content caching and secure content delivery using SSL make the latest version of Azure a more powerful solution than ever before.
It's widely agreed that cloud computing has produced a paradigm shift in traditional architectural concepts by providing new ways to both store and process data. The basic concepts of the cloud are now well understood throughout the industry
What is much less well understood, and the primary focus of this book, is how the the Windows Azure technology can be applied in real-world scenarios and made to work for you. This book answers those questions, demonstrating how all the features of Windows Azure—both old and new—can be put to work.
By the time you're done reading, you will be comfortable building high-quality end-to-end Windows Azure services of your own. The book, like the Azure platform itself, is divided into three key parts—Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and Windows Azure AppFabric. Each of these plays a unique role in the functioning of your cloud service. It is the goal of this book to show you how to use these components, both separately and together, to build flawless cloud applications as well as hybrid architectures that fit in alongside your business' existing systems.
Pro Windows Azure Platform, Second Edition is a down-to-earth, code-centric book that shows precisely how the all the components of Windows Azure are employed, and demonstrates the techniques and best practices you'll need to put them to work.
What you'll learn
Everything you need to understand the Windows Azure platform components—from Access Control to SQL Azure, from the ServiceBus to Windows Azure Connect
The architectural theory behind Windows Azure and the nuts-and-bolts code that binds your services together
How to design, build, and deploy an Azure service
The critical new services of Azure and how the work: Windows Azure Connect, VMRole, SQLAzure Data Sync and Windows Azure AppFabric caching are all covered
Who this book is for
This book is intended for professional developers who want to dig into the internals of Azure and start investigating its features in depth in order to adopt them into their workflow systems.
Table of contents
- Title
- Dedication
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- About the Authors
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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CHAPTER 1: Windows Azure Platform Overview
- Introducing Cloud Services
- Shifting to the Cloud Paradigm
- Understanding the Cloud Services Ecosystem
- Microsoft's Cloud Strategy
- Windows Azure Platform Overview
- Windows Azure
- SQL Azure
- Windows Azure AppFabric
- Windows Azure Platform Pricing
- Management Portal – Let's Provision
- Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket
- Windows Azure Platform Common Scenarios
- Summary
- Bibliography
- CHAPTER 2: Windows Azure Compute
- CHAPTER 3: Windows Azure Storage Part I – Blobs and Drives
- CHAPTER 4: Windows Azure Storage Part II – Queues
- CHAPTER 5: Windows Azure Storage Part III – Tables
- CHAPTER 6: VM Role and Windows Azure Connect
- CHAPTER 7: AppFabric: Access Control Service
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CHAPTER 8: AppFabric Service Bus
- First, a Little Background. . .
- Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
- Evolution of the Internet Service Bus (ISB)
- Introduction to the AppFabric Service Bus
- Programming with the AppFabric Service Bus
- Message Buffer
- AppFabric Messaging: Queues and Topics
- AppFabric Service Bus Queues
- AppFabric Service Bus Queues vs. Azure Storage Queues
- AppFabric Service Bus Topics
- Programming Service Bus Queues and Topics
- Summary
- Bibliography
- CHAPTER 9: AppFabric: Caching
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CHAPTER 10: SQL Azure
- SQL Azure Overview
- SQL Azure Architecture
- SQL Azure Limitations and Supported Features
- SQL Azure Data Access
- Getting Started with SQL Azure
- Developing Windows Azure Services That Use SQL Azure
- Database-Migration Strategies
- Database Growth-Management Strategies
- SQL Azure Reporting
- SSRS Feature Fidelity
- Data Sync
- Data Sync Design
- Summary
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: Windows Azure Platform
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2011
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781430235637
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