The 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 brightif 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 It'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. What 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 Azureboth old and newcan be put to work. By 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 partsWindows 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 thatfit in alongside your business' existing systems. Pro Windows Azure Platform, Second Edition 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. What you'll learn Everything you need to understand the Windows Azure platform componentsfrom Access Control to SQL Azure, from the ServiceBus to Windows Azure Connect The architectural theory behind Windows Azure and the nuts-and-bolts code that binds your services together How to design, build, and deploy an Azure service The critical new services of Azure and how the work: Windows Azure Connect, VMRole, SQLAzure Data Sync and Windows Azure AppFabric caching are all covered Who this book is for

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. Table of Contents Windows Azure Platform Overview Windows Azure Compute Windows Azure Storage, Part I: Blobs and Drives Windows Azure Storage, Part II: Queues Windows Azure Storage, Part III: Tables VMRole and Windows Azure Connect AppFabric: Access Control Service AppFabric: Service Bus AppFabric: Caching SQLAzure

Three powerful technologies are combined in a single book: Remoting, Reflection, and Threading. When these technologies come together, readers are faced with a powerful range of tools that allows them to run code faster, more securely, and more flexibly, so they'll be able to code applications across the spectrum--from a single machine to an entire network.

Windows Azure Web Sites book provides you with a practical advice in building high-quality websites. It is based on my years of experience in building 100+ solutions on Windows Azure. Windows Azure Web Sites helps you build secure, scalable, and high-performing websites at a rapid pace like no other platform. This book dives deep into these core capabilities that today's web apps must have. Windows Azure Web Sites is built from the ground-up in the cloud, and this book takes a 360 degrees view of its capabilities not only from a developer's but also from an entrepreneur's point of view. Today's developers are entrepreneurs, they build their own mobile apps that need web services in the cloud. Windows Azure Web Sites is a perfect platform for hosting such web services and web sites. You will enjoy the examples of integrating websites with other cloud services such as Storage, Virtual Machines, and Service Bus. Throughout this book, I have provided step-by-step instructions explaining the significance of each feature and the optimal way of using it. The Web Site Capability Model discussed in this book will help you visualize the capabilities and migration risks of your websites. The Storage Object Distribution pattern will open-up your creative mind in thinking differently when designing cloud applications at scale, believe me it's different. Whether you are a novice or an experienced developer, you will learn something new after reading this book. So, Jump In Here are the contents at a glance: Introduction Chapter 1: Architecture Overview Chapter 2: Web Sites Quick Start Chapter 3: Continuous Deployment Chapter 4: Operations Chapter 5: Migrating dynamicdeploy.com Chapter 6: Migrating ASP.NET MVC Music Store Chapter 7: Integrating with ElasticSearch Chapter 8: Adding Custom Analytics Chapter 9: Web Sites Lightening Round Chapter 10: Building Node.JS Apps