Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting to know Windows Azure  (See next page for excerpt.)
Chapter 2: Your first steps with a web role
Chapter 3: How Windows Azure works
Chapter 4: It's time to run with the service
Chapter 5: Configuring your service
Chapter 6: Scaling web roles
Chapter 7: Running full-trust, native, and other code
Chapter 8: The basics of BLOBs
Chapter 9: Uploading and downloading BLOBs
Chapter 10: When the BLOB stands alone
Chapter 11: The Table service, a whole different entity
Chapter 12: Working with the Table service REST API
Chapter 13: SQL Azure and relational data
Chapter 14: Working with different types of data
Chapter 15: Processing with worker roles
Chapter 16: Messaging with the queue
Chapter 17: Connecting in the cloud with AppFabric
Chapter 18: Running a healthy service in the cloud