Ebook: Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Press, 2014. — 198 p.Book: Best practices for DevOps, data storage, high availability, and more walks you through a patterns-based approach to building real-world cloud solutions. The patterns apply to the development process as well as to architecture and coding practices.
Description
Topics included:
- Source control
- Continuous integration and continuous delivery
- Web development best practices
- Single sign-on
- Data storage options
- Data partitioning strategies
- Unstructured blob storage
- Design to survive failures
- Monitoring and telemetry
- Transient fault handling
- Distributed caching
- Queue-centric work pattern