Hands-On Azure for Developers

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.

Table of Contents

1. Azure App Service
2. Azure WebJobs
3. Deploying Web Applications as Containers
4. Distributed Applications and Microservices with Service Fabric
5. Using Azure Search
6. Mobile Notifications with Notification Hub
7. Serverless and Azure Functions
8. Integrating Different Components with Logic Apps
9. Swiss Army Knife – Azure Cosmos DB
10. Reactive Architecture with Event Grid
11. Using Azure Storage – Tables, Queues, Files, and Blobs
12. Big Data Pipeline – Azure Event Hub
13. Real-Time Data Analysis – Azure Stream Analytics
14. Enterprise Integration – Azure Service Bus
15. Using Application Insights to Monitor Your Applications
16. SQL in Azure – Azure SQL
17. Big Data Storage – Azure Data Lake
18. Scaling Azure Applications
19. Serving Static Content Using Azure CDN
20. Distributing Load with Azure Traffic Manager
21. Tips and Tricks for Azure
22. Assessments