TY - BOOK AU - Krishnan,Sriram TI - Programming Windows Azure / SN - 9780596801977 U1 - 006.78 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Beijing, Cambridge [Mass.] PB - O'Reilly KW - Windows Azure KW - Cloud computing KW - Web services KW - Application software KW - Design N1 - 1. Cloud Computing -- 2. Under the Hood -- 3. Your First Cloud App -- 4. Service Model -- 5. Managing Your Service -- 6. Native and Non-.NET Code -- 7. Storage Fundamentals -- 8. Blobs -- 9. Queues -- 10. Tables -- 11. Common Storage Tasks -- 12. Building a Secure Backup System -- 13. SQL Azure N2 - Learn the nuts and bolts of cloud computing with Windows Azure, Microsoft's new Internet services platform. Written by a key member of the product development team, this book shows you how to build, deploy, host, and manage applications using Windows Azure's programming model and essential storage services. Chapters in Programming Windows Azure are organized to reflect the platform's buffet of services. The book's first half focuses on how to write and host application code on Windows Azure, while the second half explains all of the options you have for storing and accessing data on the platform with high scalability and reliability. Lots of code samples and screenshots are available to help you along the way ER -