Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook

Roberto Freato has been an independent IT consultant since he started working. He worked for several small software firms while he was studying. After completing his MSc in Computer Science and Engineering, where he worked on a thesis on Consumer Cloud Computing, he specialized in cloud and Azure. Today, he works as a freelance consultant for important companies in Italy, helping clients design and kick-off their distributed software solutions. He trains for the developer community in his free time, addressing many conferences. He is a Microsoft MVP since 2010. Neil Mackenzie has worked with computers for nearly 3 decades. He started his computer career doing large-scale numerical simulations for scientific research and business planning. Since then, he has primarily been involved in healthcare software and developing electronic medical record systems. He has been using Microsoft Azure since PDC 2008 and has used nearly all parts of the Microsoft Azure platform, including those parts that no longer exist. Neil is very active in the online Microsoft Azure community, contributing to the MSDN Microsoft Azure forums in particular. He is a Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Azure.