Book Review – The Developer’s Guide to #Azure

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The Developer’s Guide to Azure is available as a FREE digital download courtesy of Microsoft.

What does this book cover?

The newest edition of this developer’s guide has been expanded to cover the latest innovations in Microsoft Azure and contains chock-full of excellent contents in its 140 pages.

Highlights of the book

Quickly build, deploy, and scale your web apps and APIs

  • Discover how to use Azure App Service with popular frameworks in containers or running on either Windows or Linux.

Develop cloud-native applications on an open and flexible platform

  • Achieve the agility, reliability, scalability, and security that the next generation of applications demands with a cloud-native architecture.

Go from code to cloud with an end-to-end developer platform

  • Increase productivity as you build your applications for the cloud with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Improve collaboration among teams throughout the development lifecycle with Azure DevOps and GitHub.

Meet all your database needs with enterprise-grade services

  • Choose from a wide array of fully managed relational, NoSQL, and in-memory databases that span proprietary and open-source engines.

Transform your apps with AI and machine learning

  • Infuse intelligence and integrate machine learning into your apps by taking advantage of Azure AI capabilities.

Gain visibility and improve your security

  • Get an overview of your security posture, help protect against threats, and get security recommendations with services such as Azure Security Center.

Explore step-by-step demos in the guide to:

  • Create and customize dashboards in the Azure portal, and then share them with team members.
  • Create and deploy a simple .NET Core web app and database using the Azure portal.
  • Extend your app to perform data analytics using Azure Logic Apps and Cognitive Services.
  • Set up continuous delivery with GitHub to automatically deploy changes in a continuous delivery pipeline—making your apps more robust and easier to update.

Conclusion

Thanks to Microsoft, you can learn the structured approach to developing applications on Azure by following this exclusive e-book for free.

Table of Contents

01 / Getting started with the Azure application platform

  • Where to host your application
  • Azure services and products for app development
  • Azure Communication Services
  • Making your application more performant

02 / Developer tools and developer cloud

  • The most comprehensive developer tools and cloud
  • Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code
  • Build, release, and deploy with GitHub + Azure DevOps
  • CI/CD
  • Security features
  • Better together: Visual Studio + GitHub + Azure
  • Use your preferred programming language

03 / Cloud-native applications

  • What do we mean by cloud native?
  • Cloud-native components
  • Kubernetes on Azure
  • Serverless on Azure
  • Cloud native and open source
  • How to build cloud-native applications on Azure

04 / Connecting your application with data

  • Azure has your data needs covered
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Database for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB
  • Azure Arc-enabled data services
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Storage
  • Azure data analytics solutions
  • Azure Purview
  • Azure IoT Solutions

05 / Adding intelligence to your application

  • The role of AI in modern application development
  • Why choose Azure AI?
  • Azure Applied AI Services
  • Azure Cognitive Services
  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Developer tooling for AI
  • Mixed reality

06 / Securing your application

  • How can Azure help to secure your application?
  • Identity
  • Application security
  • Posture management
  • App access and connectivity
  • Logging and monitoring
  • Encryption

07 / Deploying your services and optimizing costs

  • How can Azure help you deploy your services and optimize costs?
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Azure Blueprints
  • Tracking your Azure usage
  • Creating a billing alert
  • How to use Azure Billing APIs

08 / Microsoft Azure in action

  • Navigating the Azure portal
  • Develop your first web app and extend it with Logic Apps and
  • Cognitive Services
  • Ready for production

09 / Summary and resources

  • Keep learning with Azure
  • Free resources extravaganza
  • About the authors

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