Learning Microsoft Azure

Chapter 8. Building Worker Roles

In this chapter, we're going to start looking at Microsoft Azure Cloud services and building our production order processor worker role. By the end, we'll have a scalable worker role that consumes order messages from the Service Bus topic subscription we created previously. Orders will be stored in the production database, and periodic tasks will create batch schedules to manufacture the products and allocate the stock.

We'll cover the following topics:

• Introduction to cloud services
• Creating a worker role
• Running a worker role locally
• Publishing a worker role
• Building the production order processor
• Creating a scheduled work activity
• Testing the production order processor
• Deleting idle cloud services

Along with looking at ...