Windows Azure Platform
This year I’m supposed to spend most of my time working with clients doing Cloud computing. My client is a Microsoft partner so by Cloud computer I mean Windows Azure. I’m actually really excited about because frankly CRM is beginning to bore me.
Anyway, to shorten my ramp up time I grabbed “Windows Azure Platform”. Pretty good book. It does a good job covering the entire core Windows Azure offering: Azure Storage, App Fabric and SQL Azure. All of it is pretty exciting stuff and the book covers it with some sample code.
The samples aren’t really all that great, but they get the point across. For instance: SQL Azure. It’s Microsoft SQL Server! In the cloud! And you treat it pretty much like the Microsoft SQL Server instance you have running on your laptop. The same ADO.NET stuff you have been using for the past decade will still work! So that really cool data grid you wrote for ASP.NET 1.0 back in 2001 – it will still work!
Anyway, if you need a quick ramp up on Azure this book will provide it.