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Azure REST Services. Presented by Barkha Herman My-Guides.com. What are we going to talk about?. How to write a REST service for Azure How to use Azure Console / SQL Azure (brief) How to deploy Azure Service How to consume a REST service (obligatory) What about security?
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Azure REST Services Presented by Barkha Herman My-Guides.com
What are we going to talk about? • How to write a REST service for Azure • How to use Azure Console / SQL Azure (brief) • How to deploy Azure Service • How to consume a REST service (obligatory) • What about security? • Some notes on scalability
Service – Why? • Amazon – everything is a service • Steve Yegge Rant • Clients are more than the website • Social media, web, thick client, smart devices etc. • Services begat client apps (see bullet 1)
Obligatory REST slide (aka REST – Why?) • Representational State Transfer • Easy as web • Uses Get, Put, Post Delete for CRUD • URIs, HTTP based, Common Data formats • Roy Fielding started it! • Light weight, does not have to be XML.
Azure – Why? • Scalability is easy – scale up (hosted account story) • Cost – pay as you go, scale down • Reliability – triple redundancy to avoid falls (climbing reference) • Security – Bank vs. Mattress analogy • PaaS as opposed to SaaS • Watch the spiel on MS sites if you want to know more.
Pricing • Database • Based on instance / Size • Compute • Based on instance / Size • CDN • Size / Transfer Volume https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/
How to write a RESTful services and deploy them to Azure • It’s easier than you think… • Use WCF / C# (use what you know) • Download / Install REST Template • http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/fbc7e5c1-a0d2-41bd-9d7b-e54c845394cd • SQL Azure • WCF Service • Deploy • Run!
What about security? • Why I love to segregate – aka Command Query Separation • Security • Read service is world accessible – write service not so much • Performance • Throw more instances at the read service • Bertrand Meyers - if you want to learn more • Tokens for access • TLS
Scalability • Autoscaling Application Block • AzureWatch • Demo – how to change it manually
Conclusion • Azure makes it super easy to write and deploy scalable services • REST / WCF makes it super easy to write accessible services • Got to be on the app store if you want to be seen (come together!)
How to get the code / Contact me • All the code for this session including slides are at: • http://www.my-guides.com/blog • The best way to reach me is email: • barkha@my-guides.com • www.my-guides.com • Download our free apps, and rate them!!!! • How fast I respond to emails depends entirely on how you rate our apps…