What this book covers
Chapter 1, An Introduction to Microsoft Azure Storage Services, introduces the Azure Storage service and all the options associated with storage accounts.
Chapter 2, Developing Against Storage, provides an overview of how to manage the services and utilize them programmatically using many familiar development platforms.
Chapter 3, Working with Blobs, examines the blob storage service and the two different types of blobs. It then, moves on to how to create and manage blobs.
Chapter 4, Working with Tables, looks at the Table storage service as an alternative database solution that is designed for the purpose of storing massive amounts of flat data.
Chapter 5, Designing Scalable and Performant Tables, provides a deeper dive into tables, in terms of design patterns and tackling the need for speedy read and write operations.
Chapter 6, Working with Queues, introduces the Queue storage service as a messaging solution for communications between different apps.
Chapter 7, Working with Azure File Service, allows you to create mounted shares on virtual machines that can accessed using the SMB protocol or simple REST APIs.
Chapter 8, Transient Fault Handling and Analytics, deals with transient fault handling and retry policies, and also examines Storage Analytics that comes with storage services.
