Windows Azure Web Sites book provides you with a practical advice in building high-quality websites. It is based on my years of experience in building 100+ solutions on Windows Azure. Windows Azure Web Sites helps you build secure, scalable, and high-performing websites at a rapid pace like no other platform.
This book dives deep into these core capabilities that today's web apps must have. Windows Azure Web Sites is built from the ground-up in the cloud, and this book takes a 360 degrees view of its capabilities not only from a developer's but also from an entrepreneur's point of view. Today's developers are entrepreneurs, they build their own mobile apps that need web services in the cloud. Windows Azure Web Sites is a perfect platform for hosting such web services and web sites. This book provides you with a detailed look into building Internet-scale websites for your own business; be it gaming, social, or enterprise.
Throughout this book, I have provided step-by-step instructions explaining the significance of each feature and the optimal way of using it. The Web Site Capability Model discussed in this book will help you visualize the capabilities and migration risks of your websites. The Storage Object Distribution pattern will open-up your creative mind in thinking differently when designing cloud applications at scale, believe me it's different.
Whether you are a novice or an experienced developer, you will learn something new after reading this book. So, Jump In!
Some of the covered topics that you will love are:
1) Windows Azure Web Sites system architecture
2) Continuous deployments with Visual Studio Online and GitHub
3) Accessing Windows Azure Storage service
4) Integrating websites with ElasticSearch to add search and index capabilities
5) Adding custom analytics to your websites using Piwik
6) Domain Authentication with Office 365
7) Performance recommendations and testing tools
8) Securing your website connections with HTTPS and OAuth 2.0
9) Building Node.js web sites & REST services that access MongoDB
10) Database Migration & Windows Azure Caching service
This book dives deep into these core capabilities that today's web apps must have. Windows Azure Web Sites is built from the ground-up in the cloud, and this book takes a 360 degrees view of its capabilities not only from a developer's but also from an entrepreneur's point of view. Today's developers are entrepreneurs, they build their own mobile apps that need web services in the cloud. Windows Azure Web Sites is a perfect platform for hosting such web services and web sites. This book provides you with a detailed look into building Internet-scale websites for your own business; be it gaming, social, or enterprise.
Throughout this book, I have provided step-by-step instructions explaining the significance of each feature and the optimal way of using it. The Web Site Capability Model discussed in this book will help you visualize the capabilities and migration risks of your websites. The Storage Object Distribution pattern will open-up your creative mind in thinking differently when designing cloud applications at scale, believe me it's different.
Whether you are a novice or an experienced developer, you will learn something new after reading this book. So, Jump In!
Some of the covered topics that you will love are:
1) Windows Azure Web Sites system architecture
2) Continuous deployments with Visual Studio Online and GitHub
3) Accessing Windows Azure Storage service
4) Integrating websites with ElasticSearch to add search and index capabilities
5) Adding custom analytics to your websites using Piwik
6) Domain Authentication with Office 365
7) Performance recommendations and testing tools
8) Securing your website connections with HTTPS and OAuth 2.0
9) Building Node.js web sites & REST services that access MongoDB
10) Database Migration & Windows Azure Caching service
