Microsoft Azure Storage In-depth
This course provides deep and detailed coverage of the Windows Azure storage services. Advances topics will be covered using real-world scenarios.
What you'll learn
This course will provide a deep and thorough understanding of the Windows Azure storage services. After covering the basics the content will cover the more advanced topics, and round off with real-world scenarios of how the storage services can be used in distributed applications. The first modules will cover the use of storage accounts and the storage client library. The next three modules will cover the Windows Azure Storage Services, blobs, tables and queues. The final three modules will cover performance and scalability, using shared access signatures and transient fault handling.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Managing Storage Accounts 5m
- Demo: Managing Storage Accounts Using the Windows Azure Portal 4m
- Demo: Managing Storage Accounts Using Windows Azure PowerShell 14m
- Demo: Scriping Storage Account Management 6m
- Storage Account Monitoring and Logging 7m
- Demo: Monitoring Storage Services 9m
- Summary 1m
- Windows Azure Storage Client Library Overview 2m
- Tools, SDKs, NuGet and GitHub 2m
- Demo: Windows Azure SDK and Storage Emulator 5m
- Demo: Installing Azure Storage Client Library NuGet Package 5m
- Demo: Windows Azure Storage SDK Code 6m
- Core Storage Classes 2m
- Basic Storage Client Programming 8m
- Demo: Basic Storage Client Programming 14m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 2m
- Using Queues in Applications 4m
- Programming with Queues 4m
- Demo: Programming with Queues 17m
- Programming with Messages 5m
- Demo: Message Serialization and Poison Messages 12m
- Storage Queues vs. Service Bus Queues 2m
- Queue Scenario: Workload Distribution 4m
- Queue Scenario: Distributed Messaging 2m
- Demo: Windows Azure Queues in Real-Time Gaming 8m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Programming with Blobs 9m
- Blob Scenario: Website Content 3m
- Demo: Website Content 12m
- Blocks and Parallel Operations 3m
- Demo: Blocks and Parallel Operations 7m
- Blob Scenario: Photos Backup 2m
- Demo: Photos Backup 9m
- Blob Scenario: Storing Replay Data for Ghost Cars 1m
- Demo: Storing Replay Data for Ghost Cars 3m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Shared Access Signatures Overview 10m
- Using Shared Access Signatures for Blobs and Queues 3m
- Demo: Using Shared Access Signatures for Blobs 4m
- Using Shared Access Signatures for Tables 2m
- Demo: Using Shared Access Signatures for Tables 11m
- Using Server Stored Access Policies 5m
- Demo: Using Server Stored Access Policies 8m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Transient Faults in Distributed Applications 7m
- Storage Exceptions and Default Transient Fault Handling 4m
- Demo: Storage Exceptions and Default Transient Fault Handling 7m
- Customizing Retry Policies 4m
- Demo: Implementing Custom Retry Policies 10m
- Transient Fault Handling Application Block 2m
- Demo: Using the Transient Fault Handling Application Block 9m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Alan Smith is a Windows Azure developer, trainer, mentor and evangelist at Active Solution in Stockholm. He has a strong hands-on philosophy and focusses on embracing the power and flexibility of cloud computing to deliver engaging and exciting demos. Alan has held the MVP title for 10 years, and is currently MVP of the year for Windows Azure. He is in the organization team for the CloudBurst conference and the Global Windows Azure bootcamp.