Part 6. Doing work with messages

Part 6, the last leg of this journey, covers several advanced topics.

Chapter 15 discusses worker roles. We covered web roles early in the book; most of that also applies to worker roles. This chapter covers some aspects of worker roles, focusing on how they’re different from web roles. We also discuss some more advanced topics we saved for the back of the book so you would get to them when you were good and ready.

Chapter 16 covers the last part of Azure storage: queues. We’ll look at how you can use queues to decouple your system and peek at some advanced patterns for queues.

Chapter 17 looks at the grandly titled Windows Azure platform AppFabric services. The Access Control Service (ACS) and the Service ...

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