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Programming Microsoft Azure Service Fabric, 2nd edition

Published by Microsoft Press (June 4, 2018) © 2018

  • Haishi Bai

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This book combines a comprehensive guide to success with Microsoft Azure Service Fabric and a practical catalog of design patterns and best practices for microservices design, implementation, and operation. Haishi Bai brings together all the information you’ll need to deliver scalable and reliable distributed microservices applications on Service Fabric. He thoroughly covers the crucial DevOps aspects of utilizing Service Fabric, reviews its interactions with key cloud-based services, and introduces essential service integration mechanisms such as messaging systems and reactive systems. 

  • Integrates Microsoft's Windows Server products with the Azure platform
  • Hits the integration of on-premises, hosted, and cloud environments
  • Addresses specific needs as IT pros implement a cloud strategy
Workload containerization and orchestration is a key capability of Service Fabric going forward. This book covers new and forward-looking features in Service Fabric in the area. Author will keep a public GitHub repository with up-to-date samples.

PART I FUNDAMENTALS

CHAPTER 1 Hello, Service Fabric!

CHAPTER 2 Stateless Services

CHAPTER 3 Stateful Services

CHAPTER 4 Actor Pattern

CHAPTER 5 Service Deployments and Upgrades

CHAPTER 6 Availability and Reliability

CHAPTER 7 Scalability and Performance

 

PART II SERVICE LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT

CHAPTER 8 Service Fabric Scripting

CHAPTER 9 Cluster Management

CHAPTER 10 Diagnostics and Monitoring

CHAPTER 11 Continuous Delivery

 

PART III LINUX AND CONTAINERS

CHAPTER 12 Service Fabric on Linux

CHAPTER 13 Containers

CHAPTER 14 Container Orchestration

 

PART IV WORKLOADS AND DESIGN PATTERNS

CHAPTER 15 Scalable Web

CHAPTER 16 Scalable Interactive Systems

CHAPTER 17 System Integration

 

PART V ADVANCED TOPICS

CHAPTER 18 Serverless Computing

CHAPTER 19 Artificial Intelligence

CHAPTER 20 Orchestrating an Organic Compute Plane

 

PART VI APPENDICES

Appendix A: Using Microsoft Azure PowerShell Commands

Appendix B: Pattern Index

Haishi Bai, principal software engineer at Microsoft, focuses on the Microsoft Azure compute platform, including IaaS, PaaS, networking, and scalable computing services. Ever since he wrote his first program on an Apple II when he was 12, Haishi has been a passionate programmer. He later became a professional software engineer and architect. During his 21 years of professional life, he’s faced various technical challenges and a broad range of project types that have given him rich experiences in designing innovative solutions to solve difficult problems.

Haishi is the author of a few cloud computing books, and he’s an active contributor to a few open-source projects. He also runs a technical blog (http://blog.haishibai.com) with millions of viewers. His twitter handle is @HaishiBai2010.

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