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Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition

You're reading from   Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition Over 70 advanced recipes for developing scalable services with the Microsoft Azure platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782170327
Length 422 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Developing Cloud Services for Microsoft Azure FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying Quickly with Azure Websites 3. Getting Storage with Blobs in Azure 4. Going Relational with the Azure SQL Database 5. Going NoSQL with Azure Tables 6. Messaging and Queues with the Storage and Service Bus 7. Managing Azure Resources with the Azure Management Libraries 8. Going In-memory with Azure Cache Index

Introduction


Today's software applications often need to be designed to be resilient under varying degrees of load that originates from web or mobile clients. Either we are dealing with a web service tier (or web API) or just frontend web applications. Scaling to thousands or millions of users is something that is not only up to the infrastructure, but, mainly, it is a software aspect. Best practices while writing software could avoid bottlenecks and performance issues. We can save some CPU cycles (and potentially, save money on Azure by allocating less instances) by optimizing the most used functions, and we can rely on common sense to protect our core resources from the external attacks (database, for example).

At the end of what we can optimize in terms of software, we have the ubiquitous, big issue of data access. Scalable persistence stores have been a very important problem to solve in recent years, especially for the correlation between persisting something and slow performance. We...

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