Building Web Services with Microsoft Azure

by Alex Belotserkovskiy, Stephen Kaufman, Nikhil Sachdeva

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784395698
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	05/27/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	322
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

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 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 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.