What this book covers

Chapter 1, Building Basic Services, shows you how to start approaching the basic concepts of cloud computing in Azure and how to move some basic on-premise functionalities to the cloud.

Chapter 2, Enhancing the Hybrid Process, shows you how to integrate services to your local environment and processes and how to move virtual machine and networking concepts to the cloud.

Chapter 3, Building the Frontend, shows you how to build a comprehensive frontend composed of Azure services and approach the Platform-as-a-Service model to reduce costs.

Chapter 4, Building the Backend, explains how to use polyglot persistence to build a tailored-data platform, where each logical application block has its corresponding optimal technology and evaluate some new technologies to embrace new challenges.

Chapter 5, Building the Mobile Experience, covers the world of mobile apps development from the hybrid apps point of view and how a mobile-focused developer can approach building a backend Azure service.

Chapter 6, Building the API Layer, shows you how to handle real world API development, deployment, and long-term management.

Chapter 7, Working with Messages, shows you how you can build solutions composed by different blocks and explains the services that need to communicate in an asynchronous a decoupled manner.

Chapter 8, Deploying Solutions in Azure, shows you how to handle Azure service and to proceed with deployment in a formal, repeatable, and modern way.