Building mobile back ends with windows a zure m obile s ervices

1. Windows Azure Sydney User Group June 2013 Building mobile back ends with windows azure mobile services

2. Aidan Casey Solutions architect @MYOB Australia @AIDANJCASEY | acaseyblog.wordpress.com

3. Agenda BaaS overview Windows Azure Mobile Services Features - Storage - Push Notifications - Authentication & Authorisation - Scheduler - Diagnostics & Scale

4. How long does it take to build a mobile app?

5. 18weeks! http://www.kinvey.com/blog/2086/how-long-does-it-take-to-build-a-mobile-app

6. Why so long?

7. Killer Idea Choose Technology User Experience Store Data Push Scale Social Integration Security Versioning Analytics API Geo Location

8. Backend as a Service (BaaS) Store Data Push Scale Social Integration Security Versioning Analytics API Geo Location

10. Notifications Data Auth Logging & Diag Server Logic Scheduler Scale

11. SDK’s • Windows Store • Windows Phone 8 • iOS • Android • JavaScript github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-mobile-services

12. Demo creating a new MOBILE SERVICES APP

13. Storage Data

14. Structured Storage • Windows Azure SQL Database • Dynamic schema on/off • Apps partitioned by schema • REST API generated per table (very data centric platform) • Access your data through the portal, SQL Management studio or REST API

15. JSON -> SQL data types

16. Demo USING THE Javascriptsdk

17. Server side Logic

18. Server Logic – node.js node.js on small azure VM’s (azure websites infrastructure) Server side pipeline hooks (interceptors) Out of the box you have access to the following node packages (June Release) - you now have access to NPM • request, console, push.*, tables, sql, statusCodes, azure, mssql

19. Bypassing SQL Server storage • 1. Virtual Tables • 2 Create Custom API

20. Notifications Notifications

21. Push Notifications The global push object is used to send push notifications. Success & Error Callbacks are provided

22. Push Notification Lifecycle Mobile Services iOS register app for push notifications register the apple send token to Mobile Service Server side script push.apns(…) App (2) (3) (1) Apple Push Notification Service (3)

23. Demo Push notifications TO A Windows store app

24. Authentication & Authorisation Auth

26. Authorisation Table level authorization for CRUD operations Everyone: any request by anyone is accepted. Anyone with Application Key: app key distributed w/ the app (default) Authenticated Users: users authenticated by Live Connect. Scripts and Admins: registered scripts or requests via the master key Application Key should not be used in production !

27. CLI & Diagnostics

28. Scheduler Scheduler

29. Cool Party Add-Ins from Azure Store

30. Git publishing

31. Free offer for current preview release 10 Mobile Services 1GB SQLDatabase Unlimited ingress 165MB daily egress 700 jobs a month Scheduler Running on shared instances Data transfer is per subscription, not per mobile service

32. Resources • Official Videos & Tutorials • http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/ • Real world Use Cases & black belt tips • http://chrisrisner.com/Common-Scenarios-with-Windows-Azure-Mobile-Services • Mr Azure Mobile Services (Josh Twist) • http://www.thejoyofcode.com/ • Cloud Nick ( Nick Harris ) • http://www.nickharris.net/

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