An overview of Azure services
We are living in the age of cloud computing. Many of the software paradigms that we learned and applied to our applications 10 years ago are now completely obsolete. The good old n-tier applications and development team simplicity have been replaced by distributed modules for the sake of maintainability and performance.
Without further ado, let's start preparing the scope of our application by setting up the architecture and exploring the concepts of the Azure platform.
An introduction to distributed systems
In this section, we will discuss different hosting models for a distributed backend system and what the pros and cons are of these setups.
In the previous chapters of this book, we started the development of our client application; this will require some additional views and modifications. In order to continue with the development, we first need to set up our backend. For our application, we will need a service backend that will do...
