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

When Microsoft announced Windows Azure (which was later renamed Microsoft Azure) during the Professional Developers Conference 2008, I was working for a small Silicon Valley company that deployed acoustic sensors in crime-ridden neighborhoods to detect and report gunshots in near real-time. At the time of the announcement, our team had been deep in Azure development for months as early alpha adopters.

With Azure, we wanted to eliminate on-site server deployments, which was a major cost and a ...

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