Part 3. Running your site with web roles

 

By now, you should know that Azure supports two types of server templates, called roles. This part dives super deep into web roles.

Chapter 6 discusses how to scale your web roles for performance reasons. Chapter 7 shows you how to run non-.NET code, like PHP, Ruby, Java, and so on. We also uncover all sorts of code dark magic, like spawning processes and threads, and calling native code.