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 ... morefor Pluralsight. Currently, Troy is heavily involved in Have I been pwned? (HIBP) a free service that aggregates data breaches and helps people establish potential impacts from malicious web activity. Troy blogs regularly about web security and is a frequent speaker at industry
conferences across the globe and throughout the media to discuss a wide range of technologies. Troy has been featured in a number of articles with publications including Forbes, TIME magazine, Mashable, PCWorld, ZDNet and Yahoo! Tech. Aside from technology and security, Troy is an avid snowboarder, windsurfer and tennis player
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... morey had a crack at doing it, whether it was a good idea or not.
He is also a big supporter of open source software, being involved in a number of different open source communities across a number of different platforms. One of his primary open source projects is a blog engine called FunnelWeb which he is one of the lead developers on. A lot of Aaron’s work can be found on GitHub and BitBucket or through his blog.
Outside of the computer Aaron enjoys good food, a good beer, skiing and long walks on the beach.