Gain practical skills with Azure and understand how to start developing scalable and easy-to-maintain cloud applications

Key Features

Get up and running with the development aspects of Azure cloud
Build fault-tolerant and scalable applications on Azure
A practical, developer-centric guide for Azure developers

Book Description

Microsoft Azure is one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers in the market currently, and also holds the second highest market share after AWS. Azure has a sophisticated set of services that will help you build fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications.

Hands-On Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through multiple PaaS services available in Azure, including App Services, Functions, and Service Fabric, and explain in detail how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. You will learn about how to maximize your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, and even search engines such as Azure Search. In the concluding chapters, this book covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager.

By the end of the book, you will be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies, which will help make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.

What you will learn

Implement serverless components such as Azure functions and logic apps
Integrate applications with available storages and containers
Understand messaging components, including Azure Event Hubs and Azure Queue Storage
Gain an understanding of Application Insights and other proper monitoring solutions
Store your data with services such as Azure SQL and Azure Data Lake Storage
Develop fast and scalable cloud applications

Who this book is for

Hands-On Azure for Developers is for developers who want to build highly scalable cloud-based applications on Azure. Prior knowledge of Azure services will be an added advantage.

Hands-On Azure for Developers - heftet, Engelsk, 2018