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Play by Play: Azure Beyond Websites

by Troy Hunt and Aaron Powell

Learn the lesser known, but amazingly powerful features in Azure that allow you to take your development beyond just websites and into the next generation of cloud services.

What you'll learn

Play by play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed and unscripted. In this course, Troy Hunt and Aaron Powell explore Azure's hidden features that make it so much more than just servers in the cloud. Watch as Troy and Aaron setup storage, create useful tasks with Webjobs, and demonstrate going "serverless" with Azure Functions. By the end of this course, you'll be able to utilize these powerful features when deploying your next site with Azure.

About the authors

Troy Hunt is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for Developer Security, an ASPInsider, and a full time Author for Pluralsight—a leader in online training for technology and creative professionals. Troy has been building software for browsers since the very early days of the web and possesses an exceptional ability to distill complex subjects into relatable explanations. This has led Troy to become an industry thought leader in the security space and produce more than twenty top-rated courses ... more

Aaron is a Senior Developer and Technical Web Specialist with Readify and Microsoft MVP for Internet Explorer Development. Professionally Aaron does a lot of work on the ASP.Net stack, through MVC to WebForms, as well as non-Microsoft technologies such as Node.js. Aaron is passionate about teaching developers how to make the most out of their chosen technologies and doing web development in the best way possible. A guilty pleasure of his is JavaScript; if you can do it in JavaScript he’s probabl... more

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