Building Web Services With Microsoft Azure - Softcover

Sachdeva, Nikhil; Belotserkovskiy, Alex; Kaufman, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784398373 ISBN 13: 9781784398378

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Quickly develop scalable, REST-based applications or services and learn how to manage them using Microsoft Azure

About This Book

• Explore the tools to rapidly build, deploy, and manage cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure
• Learn how to utilize Entity Framework, SQL Azure database, and other storage mechanisms to build out the data tier of your solution
• A step-by-step guide focused on delivering solutions to your cloud development lifecycle with the best practices for web services and APIs

Who This Book Is For

If you are a .NET developer who wants to develop end-to-end RESTful applications in the cloud, then this book is for you. A working knowledge of C# will help you get the most out of this book.

What You Will Learn

• Build RESTful services using the ASP.NET Web API and Microsoft Azure
• Host and monitor applications in Azure Websites and Azure Mobile Services
• Manage Web APIs using Azure API Management
• Utilize Azure Service Bus to provide elasticity to your applications as well as publish and subscribe features
• Utilize the Microsoft Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) component in your custom solutions
• Get to grips with the basic characteristics of distributed systems
• Use Entity Framework as the data model
• Leverage your cloud-based storage and discover how to access and manipulate data in the cloud
• Explore the NoSQL options available in Microsoft Azure

In Detail

There's a plethora of development tools and frameworks available today. But Microsoft Azure provides a scalable and manageable platform for customers to easily deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot their cloud-based applications. Its seamless integration and inherent support for open source software make it an obvious choice for building cloud-based applications and services.

This book will take you through a full application development architecture. You'll start by creating, customizing, and extending HTTP-based web APIs and move on to host your web API with ASP.NET. Then, using a range of different features, you'll learn how to connect your applications with Microsoft Azure Service Bus. You'll learn more advanced topics such as creating Hybrid Services, Azure Storage data services, and the Entity Framework; you'll learn to create and manipulate data services, too. Finally, you'll leverage the full power of SQL database administration in Azure and gain more insights into managing your data.

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About the Author

Alex Belotserkovskiy

Alex Belotserkovskiy is a technical evangelist for Microsoft Russia and lives in Moscow. He specializes in cloud, Internet of Things, and high performance computing topics. Alex is actively engaged in both local and international speaking activities, and works with top customers and partners to provide professional technical and technological support for their cloud projects. Alex was the first Russian Windows Azure Most Valuable Professional, in 2012, and is a Microsoft certified developer and enterprise administrator. He is an experienced Microsoft technologies instructor.

Stephen Kaufman

Stephen Kaufman works for Microsoft as a solution architect in the Americas Office of the CTO and is the lead architect for the US Azure PaaS Center of Expertise (CoE). He is a public speaker and has appeared at a variety of industry conferences nationally and internationally at events, such as TechEd North America, TechEd EMEA, Microsoft SOA and BPM conference, as well as many internal Microsoft conferences over the years discussing application development, integration, and cloud computing, as well as a variety of other related topics. Stephen is also a published author with two books―Pro BizTalk 2009 (http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219815) and Pro Windows Server AppFabric (http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430228172), both by Apress Publishing―as well as a number of whitepapers and other published content, including a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/skaufman. In addition, he is a board certified architect (CITA-P-IASA Global) and continues to work mentoring and sitting on architecture certification review boards. Lastly, Stephen was a contributing author for the Azure Architecture Certification Exam 70-534, Architecting Azure Solutions.

Nikhil Sachdeva

Nikhil Sachdeva is a senior consultant at Microsoft. He has over 11 years of experience in architecting and implementing scalable web applications and services using Microsoft technologies. He has been involved with Microsoft Azure since its early days and currently works as a subject matter expert in building custom Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions on the Azure platform. He has a passion for writing and is a contributing writer for Introducing Windows Azure for IT Professionals, Microsoft Press, and has contributed to several other Microsoft articles and blogs on Microsoft Azure and related technologies. His recent passion is building highly scalable and available solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and frequently rants his experiences at http://connectedstuff.net.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784398373
• ISBN 13: 9781784398378
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 322