Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure: Best Practices for DevOps, Data Storage, High Availability, and More

by Scott Guthrie

This ebook walks you through a patterns-based approach to building real-world cloud solutions. The patterns apply to the development process as well as to architecture and coding practices. The content is based on a presentation developed by Scott Guthrie and delivered by him at the Norwegian Developers Conference (NDC) in June of 2013 (part 1, part 2), and at Microsoft Tech Ed Australia in September 2013 (part 1, part 2). Many others updated and augmented the content while transitioning it from video to written form. Who should read this book Developers who are curious about developing for the cloud, are considering a move to the cloud, or are new to cloud development will find here a concise overview of the most important concepts and practices they need to know. The concepts are illustrated with concrete examples, and each chapter includes links to other resources that provide more in-depth information. The examples and the links to additional resources are for Microsoft frameworks and services, but the principles illustrated apply to other web development frameworks and cloud environments as well. Developers who are already developing for the cloud may find ideas here that will help make them more successful. Each chapter in the series can be read independently, so you can pick and choose topics that you're interested in. Anyone who watched Scott Guthrie's "Building Real World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure" presentation and wants more details and updated information will find that here. Assumptions This ebook expects that you have experience developing web applications by using Visual Studio and ASP.NET. Familiarity with C# would be helpful in places.

Genres: Programming, Software

403 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 17, 2014

Reviews

[Hesham Amin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good introduction to various topics on building web apps for Azure.

[Robson Castilho · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just an informative book with some good ideas for considering when implementing a cloud app.
Every topic (or pattern) is explained with some source code but the explanation is very simple and fast. Recommended only for beginners or people wishing to have a fast overview about Azure features.

[Venkatesh Upadrista · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book I recommend to anyone interested in devops or currently an expert somewhere in devops for Cloud. . This book teaches the high-level concepts that you only learn from maintaining infrastructure, but provides working examples so you can get your hands dirty if needed. I had been reading the ebook version as it was being written and am thrilled to now have a print version, which I can give to people.

Reading this book is equivalent to at least one year of on the job of experience. It touches on a lot of ideas and does so in a way that I think is both understandable to the newcomer and also will teach some new things to those with some expertise on the topics.

[Girija · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cloud pattern

Excellent book for understanding Azur cloud pattern. The book explined 13 pattern in simple and undersatandale way. Good book for beginners

[collins christopher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice book... Covers up basics of cloud...

I like this book because it is simple and easy to learn the cloud concepts.. needs improvement by providing more concepts

[Manuel Garcia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting and informative. Definitely, a help when you need to learn the basics of Azure and some best practices. A good source of references and documentation as well.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are looking for an intro to developing cloud apps, then this is a good read. More important than the technology used are the concepts it teaches. The intro claims that each section can be read independently; though if you are new to development (in general), I do suggest it's best to read at least the first 3 chapters before ANY OTHERS to get a feel for automation, source control and continuous integration respectively.

Seriously, I have lost count of how many products I've been pulled into during my career which have completely ignored one of those things. It just makes maintaining / decommissioning / fixing the product that much harder afterwards.

Also, bear in mind that this book was published in 2014, so reading it almost 10 years later, you may find some examples that may be outdated. Again though, the more important thing are the concepts it teaches.

[Yoly · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book for getting started with Azure development. I have been working with the Azure platform for a while and this book served as a good way to illustrate most of the services (but not all) that are available on the platform.

Azure is changing so fast and adding new services so quickly that I would love to see a book like this one every couple of months introducing the new technologies available for the platform.

[Matteo Anelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Best Practices are the most important and useful part of the book. Despite being a quite new and always evolving matter, Azure is so simple to build upon that the practical examples of using it are sub par compared to the other information in the book. It is also a quite good reference for vertical and highly specialized topics about cloud development that sadly are out of the scope of the books.

[Johnny · Rating 3 out of 5]

A quick introduction in how Azure can help you to follow best-practices over the whole lifetime of a software product. It’s too short to teach you the best-practices itself, therefore you will need additional resources. The book is great for an overview on all the things that are currently possible with Azure in this space.

[Dwight Walker]

Cloud apps howto book for Microsoft developers