Preface

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's platform for cloud computing. It provides developers with elastic building blocks to build scalable applications. These building blocks are services for web hosting, storage, computation, connectivity, and more. They are usable as standalone services or are mixed together to build advanced scenarios.

This practical cookbook will show you these building blocks, focusing on why we should use one or the other, and when to use them appropriately. Even though reading the entire book will give you an advanced overview of the main blocks of the Azure platform, each chapter is self-contained. So, even an inexperienced reader could jump from one chapter to another without reading the entire book. Each chapter is organized ...

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