Windows Azure Conference 2014 Windows Azure Mobile Services from ground up.

Windows Azure Conference 2014

Windows Azure Conference 2014

Gandhali Samant

Windows Azure Mobile Services from ground up

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• Building Apps• Building Apps with mobile Service• Data Storage• Push Notifications• Security and authentication• Questions

Agenda

What are we Building Apps for?

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Windows Azure Mobile Services

Data

NotificationsServer Logic

Scheduler

Logging & Diag

ScaleAuth

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Getting started with HTML / JS

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• Powered by SQL Database• Same DB – Multiple Mobile Services• Data management in:

– Windows Azure Portal– SQL Portal– SQL Management Studio– REST API– CLI Tools

Structured Storage

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The REST API

Action HTTP Verb URL Suffix

Create POST /TodoItem

Retrieve GET /TodoItem?$filter=id%3D42

Update PATCH /TodoItem/id

Delete DELETE /TodoItem/id

Data Operations and their REST Equivalents

Base REST API Endpoint URL

http://Mobileservice.azure-mobile.net/tables/*

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JSON to SQL Type Mappings

JSON Value T-SQL TypeNumeric values (integer, decimal, floating point)

Float

Boolean BitDateTime DateTimeOffset(3)String Nvarchar(max)

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Server Side Scripts

Built on top of Node.js

Passes through to SQL by default

Intercept CRUD requests to tables

Fully customizable logic flow

Customizing data flow on the server

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Node ModulesExtensibility through numerous modules

request

console

push.*

mssql

statusCodes azure

sendgrid

pusher

twilio

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Adding Server Logic

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Push Notifications1. Register for push

notifications

2. Register with your send token to Mobile Service

3. Push from server side scripts

Client

(1)

(2)

(3)

(3)

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Pushing with Native

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User Authentication

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• Table level permissions for each operation– Everyone– Anyone with the Application Key– Only Authenticated Users– Only Scripts and Admins

• User options in scripts– user.level (admin, authenticated, anonymous)– user.userId (provider:id or undefined)

Data Authorization

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Adding Authentication with Xamarin

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Command Line Tools

Create / Delete Services

Create / Update / Delete Tables and Permissions

Inspect / Delete Table Data

Create, / Upload / Delete Scripts

Scriptable control from PowerShell / Bash

Scale Up / Down Services Much More!

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Using the CLI

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• Execute scripts on a Schedule• Execute scripts on demand• Frequency and length of execution

based off of service level

Scheduler

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• Non-table based scripts• Accessible from:

– Get– Post– Put– Patch– Delete

• Same permissions as Tables

Custom API

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NPM• Ability to use ‘npm install module’ to download NPM modules• Currently accessible from Custom API only

Script Source Control

Shared Scripts• Make scripts accessible from other scripts• Like creating Node Modules

• Handled through Git repo• Access to table, scheduler, custom API, shared scripts, and

permissions

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Scheduler, Custom API, Script Source

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Diagnostics, Logging, Scale

API Calls, CPU Time, Data Out

Console logging from Scripts

Scale service based off of API Calls

Scale SQL DB / Server

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Service Scale

Free• 500K API calls per subscription per

month

Standard• 1.5M API calls per unit per month

Premium• 15M API calls per unit per month

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Diagnostics, Logging, and Scale

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Preview Pricingpreview pricing & licensing $ service level

agreements

PreviewNo availability SLA

Shared (multitenant environment)

Small instance is the only size available; multiple may be purchased

First 10 Mobile Services are free, with no plans to start charging

Reserved (private VM)

Small instance is the only size available; multiple may be purchased

Charge for Preview will be at the same reduced rate as Web Sites

Up to 100 Mobile Services

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Mobile Services GA Pricingpricing & licensing $ service level

agreements

General Availability99.9%

Free Standard Premium

Price FreeUp to 10 services,

Up to 100 Active Devices**

$25 USD/mo(per unit**)

$199 USD/mo(per unit**)

API Calls 500K (per subscription)

1.5M(per unit)

15M(per unit)

Scale N/A Up to 6 Standard units

Up to 10 Enterprise units

Scheduled Jobs Limited Included Included

SQL Database (required)

20MB Included, Standard rates apply

for more capacity

20MB Included, Standard rates apply

for more capacity

20MB Included, Standard rates apply

for more capacity

*prorated daily

**Active devices refers to the number of unique devices that have both obtained your Mobile Services powered app from a public app store and have made at least one call to your mobile service over the past 30 days.

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