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 [...] with millions of viewers. His twitter handle is [...]

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