Windows Azure programming patterns for Start-ups

by Riccardo Becker

Overview

Leverage different Windows Azure components together with your existing Microsoft .NET skills to fully take advantage of the power of Windows Azure. Use this book to start small and end big by creating and using storage, cloud services, sql databases, networking, caching and other innovative technology to realize your first top-class Windows Azure service!
"Windows Azure for Start-ups" is an incremental guide that will take you from the essentials of the Windows Azure platform up to the realization of your own cloud services running on the platform. You will learn how to apply different technologies of the Windows Azure platform with the help of examples all focusing on one single fictitious start-up scenario.
This book is centred around a fictitious company called Geotopia that wants to build a brand new social network by using the Windows Azure platform. It will take the reader from the theory and rationale behind Windows Azure right to building services and coding C#.
The books starts by outlining the concepts of Windows Azure. It then demonstrates how to set up a development environment and how to build your application by using different storage mechanisms, applying different features from the Windows Azure platform and ending with the newest features explained from the latest release.
Windows Azure for Startups will help you take full advantage of the Windows Azure platform and bring your new service online as quickly as possible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849685610
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	10/25/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Riccardo Becker works fulltime as a Principal IT Architect for Logica in the Netherlands. He holds several certifications and his background goes back to 1998 where he started working with good ol Visual Basic 5.0 (or was it 6.0?). Since then he has held several roles including developer, lead developer, architect, project leader, practice manager and recently, he decided to accept the role of Principal IT Architect where he focuses on innovation, cutting-edge technology and specifically on Windows Azure and cloud computing in general. In 2007 he joined the Microsoft LEAP program where he got a glance at the move Microsoft was about to make on their road to the cloud. Pat Helland give him that insight and since the first release of Windows Azure on PDC 2008, he started focusing on it, keeping track of the progress and the maturity of the platform. In the last few years, he also did a lot on incubation for his employer, raising awareness of cloud computing in general and Windows Azure.