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Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development

You're reading from   Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development Straight talking advice on how to design and build enterprise applications for the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849680981
Length 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. Introduction to Cloud Computing FREE CHAPTER 2. The Nickel Tour of Azure 3. Setting Up for Development 4. Designing our Sample Application 5. Introduction to SQL Azure 6. Azure Blob Storage 7. Azure Table Storage 8. Queue Storage 9. Web Role 10. Web Services and Azure 11. Worker Roles 12. Local Application for Updates 13. Azure AppFabric 14. Azure Monitoring and Diagnostics 15. Deploying to Windows Azure Index

Windows Azure Content Delivery Network


Delivering content worldwide can be a challenge. As more and more people gain access to the Internet, more and more people (hopefully) will be visiting our site. The ability to deliver content to our visitors is limited by the resources we've used for our application. One way of handling bottlenecks is to move commonly used files (such as CSS or JavaScript libraries) or large media files (such as photos, music, and videos) to another network with much greater bandwidth, and with multiple locations around the world. These networks are known as Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), and when properly utilized to deliver content from a node geographically closer to the requester, they can greatly speed up the delivery of our content.

The Windows Azure Content Delivery Network is a service that locates our publicly available blobs in data centers around the world, and automatically routes our users' requests to the geographically closest data center. The CDN...

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