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

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Build scalable enterprise applications using Microsoft Azure
The perfect fast-paced case study for developers and architects wanting to enhance core business processes
Packed with examples to illustrate concepts
Written in the context of building an online portal for the case-study application

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Microsoft's Azure platform has proved itself to be a highly scalable and highly available platform for enterprise applications. Despite a familiar development model, there is a difference between developing for Azure and moving applications and data into the cloud. You need to be aware of how to technically implement large-scale elastic applications. In this book, the authors develop an Azure application and discuss architectural considerations and important decision points for hosting an application on Azure. This book is a fast-paced introduction to all the major features of Azure, with considerations for enterprise developers. It starts with an overview of cloud computing in general, followed by an overview of Microsoft's Azure platform, and covers Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and AppFabric, discussing them with the help of a case-study. The book guides you through setting up the tools needed for Azure development, and outlines the sample application that will be built in the later chapters. Each subsequent chapter focuses on one aspect of the Azure platform—web roles, queue storage, SQL Azure, and so on—discussing the feature in greater detail and then providing a programming example by building parts of the sample application. Important architectural and security considerations are discussed with each Azure feature. The authors cover topics that are important to enterprise development, such as transferring data from an on-premises database to SQL Azure using SSIS, securing an application using AppFabric access control, blob and table storage, and asynchronous messaging using Queue Storage. Readers will learn to leverage the use of queues and worker roles for the separation of responsibilities between web and worker roles, enabling linear scale out of an Azure application through the use of additional instances. A truly "elastic" application is one that can be scaled up or down quickly to match resources to demand as well as control costs; with the practices in this book you will achieve application elasticity.

Who is this book for?

If you provide technological leadership to their enterprise—senior developers, architects, CIO/CTO and you want or need to guide your enterprise’s application design to Azure, this is the perfect book for you! Since the examples are in .NET, the book will skew to MS-oriented developers. But a lot of what is discussed will be applicable to anyone wanting to work with Azure. No matter what language you use, you provision the application fabric the same way, and all the underlying concepts will be the same. You will need experience with Visual Studio, and some basic SQL Server knowledge.

What you will learn

Explore the major features of Azure
Examine the differences between Azure development and traditional application development
Integrate with an on-premises database using SSIS
Utilize blob, table, and queue storage
Develop web and worker roles
Log application diagnostics and events
Create a WCF service in a web role
Review considerations for moving an application and data into the cloud
Create a Windows Forms application, and integrate it with web services using Visual Studio
Monitor your application s performance using Azure Diagnostics

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nikos anastopoulos Apr 20, 2011

I had the privilege to read and make a small review of the "Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development", from Richard J. Dudley, Nathan A. Duchene published by PACKT Publishing (ISBN 978-1-849680-98-1) on December 2010.I spent enough time reading the book, and I strongly believe it's a very nice book, for the following reasons:- It has a very nice structure, that helps readers become familiar with both Cloud and Microsoft's Cloud Platform offering (Windows Azure), even if they had never heard about this term. I really liked the statement "No cloud computing platform can be all things to all people", since there is a lot of noise and different interpretation of Cloud, either by vendors or by nature (public vs. private) [Chapter 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing]- "Explaining Azure to the managers" was a nice surprise, since they demystify all new aspects of Azure [Chapter 2: The Nickel Tour of Azure]- The authors provide detailed information on how to setup the development environment and create Windows Azure account, which is very helpful, especially for beginners [Chapter 3: Setting Up for Development]- They also provide enough resources for third party tools and Microsoft programs, either CTPs or on codeplex.com, that can be useful to all- In SQL Azure, I liked the feature comparison between this version and SQL Server 2008 (on premise). If you consider migrating your database on Azure, then you'll find this information useful, since besides feature comparison they briefly cover other important areas like Security, Manageability, Scalability and High Availability, Data Synchronization and Data Migration. [Chapter 5: Introduction to SQL Azure]Microsoft offers several storage options, BLOBs, Tables and Queues, besides the relational SQL Azure database, and there are useful information in each option. It's interesting to note how to create a new BLOB storage, how to use the REST API for BLOB storage [Chapter 6: Azure Blob Storage].- "Table Storage versus database tables" is another interesting section in Table storage since it highlights some key conceptual differences using simple examples, limitations of this storage type, exception handling and use of REST API [Chapter 7: Azure Table Storage].- Although I'm not sure how familiar you might be with Queues (it's a very interesting pattern for asynchronous communication between applications or systems), but in case you are not, you will find interesting the "Reasons to use a queue" section [Chapter 8: Queue Storage]- Similarities of ASP.NET and Web role in Azure and "Application diagnostics and logging in the cloud" are some interesting parts on [Chapter 9: Web Role], especially the association of log files and storage options. The sample application is fine, but I would prefer if C# had been used instead of VB.NET.- If you are not familiar with WCF and endpoints, you will find helpful the notes in sample code and configuration files, as well as the brief introductions in contracts (Service, Operation and Data) [Chapter 10: Web Services and Azure]Worker role is an interesting offering and there are some useful information in [Chapter 11: Worker Roles] like "Uses of worker roles", "Thread pools", "Management", the use of non-IIS servers ("Externally facing worker roles", although there are not enough details on how to achieve that), and recommendations for best practices.- The most interesting feature of Windows Azure is AppFabric, and the book covers the main uses of it: Access Control and Service Bus. The `claims based authentication' and use of Tokens are explained in a well-understood way and the sample configuration is very useful for your first attempt to use this service. Regarding Service Bus, the focus is on using this service for message relay (`to connect our systems with Service Bus, and use the Service Bus as our public endpoint') and as a connection broker (`The service bus then facilitates the two connections, finding a common protocol on which to communicate, and the two applications then use a direct connection'). [Chapter 13: Azure AppFabric]- Since monitoring and diagnostics are important components of a successful implementation and deployment, the information and resources provided in [Chapter 14: Azure Monitoring and Diagnostics] are very helpful.- Finally, the entire deployment process is nicely described, especially the various environments (Staging, Production), with detailed information (screen-shots) that help a lot [Chapter 15: Deploying to Windows Azure].Overall it is a well-written book, that can cover many features of Windows Azure offering and can be evaluated by both managers and developers/IT pros as a reference book. In order to gain more insight on the development parts, you will have to create a Windows Azure account, deploy the sample application, and extend it based on your own needs/requirements.Taking into consideration all of the above, I highly recommend it as a must-have book for Windows Azure introduction (level 200) book

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Adwait Ullal Feb 20, 2012

The book is a good (but outdated) introduction to Azure development and does a good job of explaining the various components of Azure and their relationships. However, I was disappointed with the title of the book and it's contents. From the title, I was expecting the book to tack topics such as:- Change Management- Monitoring- Release Management- Integration- Identity Managementand other topics relevant to enterprise development. These topics were either glossed over or not covered in this book.

Ivan Brugiolo Sep 15, 2011

I concurr with the other reviewer that the book is a well structured walk-through of the product offering and services of Azure (something messing such as Cache, and the VM worker role probably came out after the publishing).I did not like the presentation too UI/GUI/VS oriented presentation of the Web Role part.It would have been more beneficial to clarify what magic happens in the `development` phase, how is that related to the programmability model and the settings model, and how that relates to the deployment.

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