Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure e-book

Microsoft happy to release a free ebook today: Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure: Best practices for DevOps, data storage, high availability, and more, by Scott Guthrie, Mark Simms, Tom Dykstra, Rick Anderson, and Mike Wasson.

Here are the download links: PDF (6.35 MB), EPUB (22.7 MB), and MOBI(12.3 MB).

This ebook walks you through a patterns-based approach to building real-world cloud solutions. The patterns apply to the development process as well as to architecture and coding practices.

The content is based on a presentation developed by Scott Guthrie and delivered by him at the Norwegian Developers Conference (NDC) in June of 2013 (part 1, part 2), and at Microsoft Tech Ed Australia in September 2013 (part 1, part 2). Many others updated and augmented the content while transitioning it from video to written form.

Mobile First, Cloud First

Microsoft CEO announce Mobile First, Cloud First strategy,

Part of Cloud-First strategy, if we look back last 12 months, Microsoft Azure announce and delivery more than 300 features and functions part of cloud-first strategy Microsoft commented to move feature and functions upcoming years.

Part of Mobile-First strategy. Microsoft is absolutely focused on empowering people to get more done wherever they need to and on any device. So now I get a chance to show you what Microsoft's doing to help people do more on the device they choose. Microsoft is absolutely committed to creating great mobile applications, and you see on my iPad we already have a number of apps, right? I have my Yammer app, Lync, Dynamics, Bing, Skype, OneNote, and one my favorites, OneDrive

SharePoint on Azure

Given below my slides from Microsoft Azure Boot camp Singapore Chapter