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The Azure Services Platform is a brand-new cloud-computing technology from Microsoft. It is composed of four core components—Windows Azure, .NET Services, SQL Services, and Live Services—each with a unique role in the functioning of your cloud service. It is the goal of this book to show you how to use these components, both separately and together, to build flawless cloud services.At its heart Windows Azure Platform is a down-to-earth, code-centric book.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/79510/development-with-the-forcecom-platform-building-business-applications-in-the-cloud/ 2009-10-16T00:00:00.00Z

Foreword by Craig Weissman, CTO, Salesforce.comBuild Cloud-Based Enterprise Applications Fast–and Drive More Value at Lower Cost!Using the Force.com platform, enterprise developers can build and deploy powerful applications far more rapidly than traditional J2EE, Microsoft .NET, or LAMP technology stacks permit. With a free subscription to the Force.com platform, developers can build apps that solve virtually any enterprise challenge with remarkable value, scalability, and reliability.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/60499/beautiful-data-the-stories-behind-elegant-data-solutions/ 2009-07-24T00:00:00.00Z

In this insightful book, you'll learn from the best data practitioners in the field just how wide-ranging -- and beautiful -- working with data can be. Join 39 contributors as they explain how they developed simple and elegant solutions on projects ranging from the Mars lander to a Radiohead video.With Beautiful Data, you will: *Explore the opportunities and challenges involved in working with the vast number of datasets made available by the Web

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/60577/cloud-application-architectures-building-applications-and-infrastructure-in-the-cloud-theory-in-practice-oreilly/ 2009-04-17T00:00:00.00Z

If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, or developer, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with these highly scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services.While analysts hotly debate the advantages and risks of cloud computing, IT staff and programmers are left to determine whether and how to put their applications into these virtualized services.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/18062/programming-amazon-web-services-s3-ec2-sqs-fps-and-simpledb/ 2008-03-25T00:00:00.00Z

Product Description Building on the success of its storefront and fulfillment services, Amazon now allows businesses to "rent" computing power, data storage and bandwidth on its vast network platform. This book demonstrates how developers working with small- to mid-sized companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as the Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Flexible Payments Service (FPS), and SimpleDB to build web-scale bus

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