free ebook: Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure

ScottGu's Blog - Free ebook: Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure

1. Automate everything
2. Source control
3. Continuous integration and continuous delivery
4. Web development best practices
5. Single sign-on
6. Data storage options.
7. Data partitioning strategies
8. Unstructured blob storage
9. Design to survive failures
10. Monitoring and telemetry
11. Transient fault handling
12. Distributed caching
13. Queue-centric work pattern
14. More patterns and guidance

book is based on talks by ScottGu (videos):

Building Real World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure Part 1 | TechEd Australia 2013 | Channel 9

Building Real World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure Part 2 | TechEd Australia 2013 | Channel 9

Since the presentation Azure has significantly extended available services, on the same foundation...