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| Manning Early Access Program |
Azure in Action Chris Hay and Brian H. Prince MEAP Began: August 2009 Softbound print: August 2010 (est.) | 425 pages ISBN: 9781935182481 |
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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources
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Part 1 Welcome to the cloud 1. Getting to know Windows Azure - FREE 2. Your first steps with a Web role - AVAILABLE Part 2 Understanding the Azure service model 3. How Windows Azure works - AVAILABLE 4. It's time to run with the service - AVAILABLE 5. Configuring your service - AVAILABLE Part 3: Running your site with web roles 6. Scaling web roles - AVAILABLE 7. Running native, full trust, and other code - AVAILABLE Part 4 Working with blob storage 8. The basics of blobs - AVAILABLE 9. Uploading and downloading blobs - AVAILABLE 10. When the blob stands alone - AVAILABLE |
Part 5 Working with structured data
11. The Table Service, a whole different entity - AVAILABLE 12. Working with the Table REST API - AVAILABLE 13. SQL Azure and relational data - AVAILABLE 14. Working with different types of data - AVAILABLE Part 6 Doing work with messages 15. Processing with worker roles - AVAILABLE 16. Messaging with the queue - AVAILABLE 17. Connecting with AppFabric - AVAILABLE 18. Running a healthy service in the cloud - AVAILABLE |
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DESCRIPTION
Cloud-based applications pose an intriguing value proposition for businesses. With an easily scalable, pay-as-you-go model and very small startup costs, the cloud can be a great alternative to systems hosted in-house. Developers are scrambling to understand the impact a cloud-based approach will have on current and future projects.
Azure is Microsoft's full-fledged entry into the "Cloud Services Platform" arena. Unlike other cloud offerings that address only one piece of the puzzle, Azure includes an operating system, a set of developer services, and a data model that can be used individually or together. It's designed to interact seamlessly with other .NET-based components, and leverages your knowledge of Visual Studio, the .NET platform, and SQL Server. It's also fully compatible with multiple internet protocols, including HTTP, REST, SOAP, and XML.
Azure in Action is a fast-paced tutorial intended for architects and developers looking to develop on Windows Azure and the Windows Azure Platform. It's designed both for readers new to cloud concepts and for those familiar with cloud development but new to Azure. After a quick walk through the basics, it guides you all the way from your first app through more advanced concepts of the Windows Azure Platform.
The book starts by looking at the logical and physical architecture of an Azure app, and then moves to the core storage services—binary store, tables and queues. Then, it explores designing and scaling frontend and backend services that run in the cloud. Next, it covers more advanced scenarios in Windows Azure. After covering the core of Azure, it introduces the rest of the Windows Azure Platform with a particular focus on SQL Azure Database.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- Building your first Azure app
- Data storage and manipulation
- Using message queues
- Deployment and management
- Windows Azure Platform, including SQL .NET
About the Author
Chris Hay is a Microsoft MVP in Client App Dev, an international speaker and specializes in Silverlight, Azure and ASP.Net development. He has been involved in very large projects with high transactional throughput and very large databases. He also co-founded the Cambridge, UK usergroup. He has presented Windows Azure at various conferences and usergroups since PDC 2008.
Brian Prince is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on building and educating the architect community. He has over 13 years IT management and consulting experience in numerous industries including real estate, financial services, healthcare, retail and state government. Brian is a co-founder of the non-profit organization CodeMash ( www.codemash.org ) and speaks at various regional and national technology events.
WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING
“Azure in Action looks on pace to be a must for any developer... In fact, the content is making me consider moving my own startup to Windows Azure.”
—Chad Campbell, author of Silverlight 2 in Action
About the Early Access Version
This Early Access version of Azure in Action enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Online
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