In Azure Serverless Succinctly, author Sander Rossel provides a clear guide to working with Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, and other Azure offerings to build apps and services on a serverless architecture. …
Azure Cognitive Services Succinctly
With Azure Cognitive Services Succinctly, author Ed Freitas delivers an accessible guide to integrating computer vision, decision-making, speech, and more into your applications to give your apps an edge over the competition, whether you’re building for the enterprise or just for fun. …
App Modernization on Azure Succinctly
What’s the right way to move existing applications to the cloud to better use its power while enabling new features? In App Modernization on Azure Succinctly, Lorenzo Barbieri will help you understand how to modernize existing apps without completely rewriting them. …
Azure Functions Succinctly
Azure Functions is a new service available in Microsoft Azure to help developers run code on serverless architectures. In essence, Azure Functions is about events and code—developers write some code that will be executed upon some triggering event—but what sets Azure Functions apart is its simplicity. …
Azure Cosmos DB and DocumentDB Succinctly
DocumentDB is a NoSQL database platform that serves as the base of Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft’s new globally-distributed, multi-model database service. In Azure Cosmos DB and DocumentDB Succinctly by Ed Freitas, you will learn about many of DocumentDB’s features, how it compares to traditional databases, how to build scalable applications with it, and why it’s a great option for developing web apps. Freitas delivers just what developers need to set up their first DocumentDB collection, query their data, write code for the client side and the server side, and more. …
Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure Second Edition
Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure, Second Edition covers the fundamentals of Azure you need to start developing solutions right away. It concentrates on the features of the Azure platform that you are most likely to need to know rather than on every feature and service available on the platform. This book also provides several walkthroughs you can follow to learn how to create VMs and virtual networks, websites and storage accounts, and so on. In many cases, real-world tips are included to help you get the most out of your Azure experience. …
Microsoft Azure Essentials: Migrating SQL Server Databases to Azure
This ebook, Microsoft Azure Essentials Migrating SQL Server Databases to Azure, introduces you to SQL Server in an Azure virtual machine and to Azure SQL Database, and walks you through getting started with each approach. It takes you from creating a SQL Server instance in a virtual machine or as a platform service to migrating an on-premises database into Azure and then to securing the data and the database in Azure. …
SQL on Azure Succinctly
The nature of business today demands that companies have an online presence. In SQL on Azure Succinctly, author Parikshit Savjani shows how companies can use SQL Server on Azure to innovate their online properties without investing heavily in infrastructure. Savjani discusses the reasons behind using SQL on Azure and reviews the scenarios, considerations, and configuration design optimizations that make it a viable option for enterprise. …
Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Web Apps for Developers
Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Web Apps for Developers focuses on providing essential information about developing web applications hosted on Azure Web Apps. It is written with the developer who has experience using Visual Studio and the .NET Framework in mind. If Azure Web Apps is new to you, then this book is for you. If you have experience developing for Azure Web Apps, then this book is for you, too, because there are features and tools discussed in this text that are new to the platform. …
Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Machine Learning
Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Machine Learning focuses on providing essential information about the theory and application of data science principles and techniques and their applications within the context of Azure Machine Learning Studio. It is targeted towards both data science hobbyists and veterans, along with developers and IT professionals who are new to machine learning and cloud computing. Azure ML makes it just as approachable for a novice as a seasoned data scientist, helping you quickly be productive and on your way towards creating and testing machine learning solutions. …