Part 3 Modern application development
Cloud infrastructure is powerful, but only when developers put it to work does it really shine. This part is all about moving from raw building blocks to fully fledged applications—where ideas become solutions, and solutions scale to serve millions.
In these chapters, we’ll explore the services that make Azure a developer’s playground. We’ll start with Azure App Service, which gives you a fast track from code to a running web app without worrying about servers or patches. Then, we’ll see how Azure Functions take that even further, letting you build event-driven solutions that scale invisibly in the background. From there, we’ll step into the world of Azure AI, adding intelligence and automation to applications with surprisingly little effort. Finally, we’ll dive into Azure Cosmos DB, Azure’s globally distributed database, and see how it supports real-time, planet-scale applications with speed and flexibility that traditional databases just can’t match.
By the end of this part, you’ll see how compute, data, and AI come together in Azure’s developer ecosystem. Whether you’re building a customer-facing app, a serverless workflow, or an intelligent recommendation engine, you’ll have the tools to go from “hello world” to global scale—all without leaving Azure.