Webber-Cross Geoff. - Learning Microsoft Azure

Geoff Webber-Cross has over 10 years' experience in the software industry, working in manufacturing, electronics, and other engineering disciplines. He has experience of building enterprise and smaller .NET systems on Azure and other platforms. He also has commercial and personal experience of developing Windows 8 and Windows Phone applications. He has authored Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 , Packt Publishing .

I'd like to thank my wife and two boys for keeping me motivated throughout the book-writing process.

Debarchan Sarkar is a Support Escalation Engineer in the Microsoft HDInsight team and a technical author of books on SQL Server BI and Big Data. His total tenure at Microsoft is 7 years, and he was with the SQL Server BI team before diving deep into Big Data and the Hadoop world. He is an SME in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and is passionate about the present-day Microsoft self-service BI tools and data analysis, especially social-media brand sentiment analysis. He hails from the "City of Joy" Kolkata, India, and is presently located in Bangalore, India, for his job in Microsoft Global Technical Support Center. He owns and maintains his Big Data Learnings group on Facebook and is a speaker at several of Microsoft's internal and external community events. His Twitter handle is @debarchans.

He is the author of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with Hadoop , Packt Publishing and Pro Microsoft HDInsight: Hadoop on Windows , Apress Media LLC .

I want to thank my father, Mr. Asok Sarkar, for his continued encouragement and all the hard work he has done throughout his life to see us happy. I feel better today because I'm able to acknowledge that I'm proud to have you as my father, from the core of my heart.

Jignesh Gangajaliya is a principal technical architect with over 11 years of core technology and global business leadership experience in defining solutions and technology architectures.

His expertise is in design, development, and deployment of large-scale software systems and solutions across various industry verticals. His core strengths are wide and deep hands-on technological expertise, strategic thinking, comprehensive analytical skills, creativity in solving complex problems, and the ability to quickly understand complex business problems and come up with pragmatic solutions.

He is passionate about creating a strategic vision, and building and transforming organizations to accelerate growth and value creation by leveraging new technologies, trends, and emerging opportunities.

He specializes in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, Microsoft server products and technologies, cloud computing, SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services.

Zhidong Wu received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from Brown University. He has worked at Microsoft Corporation and Baidu in the past. He is an enthusiast in Big Data and has experience in Apache Hadoop, Microsoft Azure HDInsight, and Microsoft Cosmos. He can be contacted at <.

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Preface

Learning Microsoft Azure is a practical, hands-on book for learning how to build systems for Microsoft Azure. This book is themed around an enterprise case study based on a fictional industrial bakery called Azure Bakery, which spans three business units: sales, production, and supply. The entire system is built on the Microsoft Azure technology that utilizes a broad range of services.

The sales business unit is responsible for selling products to customers through the MVC 5 customer website, where customers can place orders and view their status as the order moves through the system. Products are managed through another administrator website that implements Azure Active Directory authentication. A Windows Phone app with .NET mobile service and Twitter authentication integrated with the customer website allows customers to view the order status on their phone and receive push notifications via the notifications hub when the order status changes and new products are created. The sales system has its own dedicated SQL Azure Database and communicates with the other systems via a Service Bus topic. A worker role is implemented to keep the sales system updated as orders are processed through the enterprise system.