Put simply, Azure Virtual Desktop is a way to serve Windows resources over the internet. You can deliver an entire desktop or specific applications, and your users can access them anywhere, on any device. In Azure Virtual Desktop Succinctly, author Marco Moioli provides a thorough overview of the service, covering how it can enhance your organization’s security, productivity, and cost savings. …
Azure Durable Functions Succinctly
Durable Functions is an Azure Functions extension that implements triggers and bindings that abstract and manage state persistence. Azure Durable Functions Succinctly author Massimo Bonanni will take readers from a recap of Azure Functions through Durable entities so that you can determine if this technology is right for your needs. …
Azure Pipelines Succinctly
Azure Pipelines, a component of the Azure DevOps suite, helps software development teams manage building, testing, and deploying their products. In Azure Pipelines Succinctly, author Antonio Liccardi covers the basics of what a pipeline is and what it can do before providing a thorough rundown of Azure Pipelines in action. …
Azure DevOps Succinctly
In Azure DevOps Succinctly, author Sander Rossel covers the basics to get you up and running with Boards, Repos, Pipelines, Test Plans, and more. Download the book today to learn how you can quickly enhance your team’s DevOps processes by integrating with Azure. …
Azure Serverless Succinctly
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. …