Windows Azure Mobile Services at ReBOOT Cloud Camp , Bangalore by Senthil Kumar

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Windows Azure Mobile
Services
Senthil Kumar
Microsoft MVP – Client Development
MobileOSGeek.com

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About Me
• Work at Trivium eSolutions , Bangalore
• Microsoft MVP – Client Development
• Speaker , Blogger , Software Engineer.
• BDOTNETTER( Bangalore .NET User Group )
• Windows Phone enthusiast
Blog : MobileOSGeek.com
Twitter : @isenthil

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Agenda
• What is Windows Azure Mobile Services ?
• Cloud + Mobility
• Azure Mobile Services Features
• Scenarios for Windows Azure Mobile Services
• How to Create Windows Azure Mobile Services ?
• Demo
• Q & A

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What is Windows Azure Mobile Services ?
Data
Notifications
Auth
Server Logic
Scale
Logging
Diagnostics

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Windows Phone
• Mobile OS from Microsoft
• Modern Style UI
• Content than Chrome
• Present SDK Version is Windows Phone SDK 8.0
• C# / VB.NET , XAML , C++

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Cloud
• Elastic Scale
• Near-infinite Capacity
• Consumption-based Pricing
• No Long-Term Commitments
• High Reliability
• Global Presence

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Mobility + Cloud = Perfect Pair
Mobility Cloud
Limited Compute Limitless Compute
Limited Storage Limitless Storage
Connect from Anywhere Services via the internet
(APIs)
Rapidly Growing Market Scale and Elasticity

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Scenarios
• Modern mobile apps
• Reduces the friction associated with repeated and common tasks such as
user authentication, push notifications and structured storage.
• Rapid Development
• Get your app up and running sooner when you use Mobile Services to
configure a straightforward and secure backend quickly within few minutes.
• Apps requiring structured data
• Seamlessly connect to a Windows Azure SQL database for simple data
management and dynamically created tables. Easy to set and manage
permissions.

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Windows Azure Mobile Services

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Structured Storage
• Powered by SQL Database
• Same DB – Multiple Mobile Services
• Data management in
• Windows Azure Portal
• SQL Portal
• SQL Management Studio
• REST API

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Server Logic
• Automatic service REST API generated for storage
• Dynamic Schema on/off
• Ability to author server logic that intercepts CRUD operation
pipeline
• Rich querying capability
• Node.js scripts
• Intercept CRUD requests to tables
• Fully customizable logic flow

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Node Modules

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REST API
Action HTTP Verb URL Suffix
Create POST /TodoItem
Read GET /TodoItem?$filter=id%3D42
Update PATCH /TodoItem/id
Delete DELETE /TodoItem/id
Data Operations and their REST Equivalents
Base REST API Endpoint URL
https://Mobileservice.azure-mobile.net/tables/*

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Push Notifications
1. Register for push notifications
with GCM
2. Send your identifier to Mobile
Service
3. Send push from server scripts
4. GCM delivers notification to
device

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Authorization & Authentication
• Authentication
• Facebook , Twitter , Google , Windows Live
• Table level permissions for each CRUD operation
Everyone
Anyone with the Application Key
Only Authenticated Users
Only Scripts and Admins
• 400 / Unauthorized response if a call doesn’t pass

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Authorization
• Server script to match against your table (role-based access,
specific user, etc.)
• Match against user.userId

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Scheduler
• Execute scripts on a schedule
• Execute scripts on demand
• Frequency and length of execution based off of service level
• Ideal for backend data processing

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Custom API
• Non-table based scripts
• Accessible from
• Get
• Post
• Put
• Patch
• Delete
• Same permissions as tables

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Demo

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Diagnostics, Logging and Scale
Diagnostics
• API calls
• CPU Time
• Data Out
Logging
• console.error(…)
• console.log(…)
Scale - Compute
• Scale out instance count
• Scale up VM size
Scale - Storage
• Scale out mobile service
tenant to dedicated SQL DB
• Scale up SQL DB

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Summary

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Resources
• Windows Azure Mobile Services
http://aka.ms/mobileservices
• SDK and Samples available on GitHub
https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-mobile-services
• Inside Windows Azure Mobile Services
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Kirill-Gavrylyuk-and-Josh-Twist-Inside-Windows-Azure-Mobile-Services
• Windows Azure FREE Trial
http://bit.ly/MikeAzureTrial

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Q & A