{"product_id":"9781430224808","title":"Windows Azure Platform","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Windows Azure Platform has rapidly established itself as one of the most sophisticated cloud computing platforms available. With Microsoft working to continually update their product and keep it at the cutting edge, the future looks bright—if you have the skills to harness it. In particular, new features such as remote desktop access, dynamic content caching and secure content delivery using SSL make the latest version of Azure a more powerful solution than ever before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s widely agreed that cloud computing has produced a paradigm shift in traditional architectural concepts by providing new ways to both store and process data. The basic concepts of the cloud are now well understood throughout the industry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is much less well understood, and the primary focus of this book, is how the the Windows Azure technology can be applied in real-world scenarios and made to work for you. This book answers those questions, demonstrating how all the features of Windows Azure—both old and new—can be put to work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the time you’re done reading, you will be comfortable building high-quality end-to-end Windows Azure services of your own. The book, like the Azure platform itself, is divided into three key parts—Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and Windows Azure AppFabric. Each of these plays a unique role in the functioning of your cloud service. It is the goal of this book to show you how to use these components, both separately and together, to build flawless cloud applications as well as hybrid architectures that fit in alongside your business' existing systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePro Windows Azure Platform, Second Edition\u003c\/em\u003e is a down-to-earth, code-centric book that shows precisely how the all the components of Windows Azure are employed, and demonstrates the techniques and best practices you'll need to put them to work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWhat you’ll learn\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eEverything you need to understand the Windows Azure platform components—from Access Control to SQL Azure, from the ServiceBus to Windows Azure Connect \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe architectural theory behind Windows Azure and the nuts-and-bolts code that binds your services together \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow to design, build, and deploy an Azure service \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe critical new services of Azure and how the work: Windows Azure Connect, VMRole, SQLAzure Data Sync and Windows Azure AppFabric caching are all covered \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ch4\u003eWho this book is for\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book is intended for professional developers who want to dig into the internals of Azure and start investigating its features in depthin order to adoptthem into their workflow systems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003col\u003e \u003cli\u003eWindows Azure Platform Overview \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWindows Azure Compute \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWindows Azure Storage, Part I: Blobs and Drives \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWindows Azure Storage, Part II: Queues \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWindows Azure Storage, Part III: Tables \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eVMRole and Windows Azure Connect \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAppFabric: Access Control Service \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAppFabric: Service Bus \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAppFabric: Caching \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSQLAzure \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Apress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127468310768,"sku":"9781430224808","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781430224808_p0.jpg?v=1763749682","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781430224808","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}