building ios apps with windows azure mobile services chris risner technical evangelist microsoft ...

Building iOS Apps with Windows Azure Mobile ServicesChris RisnerTechnical EvangelistMicrosoft

http://chrisrisner.com@chrisrisner

Windows Azure Mobile ServicesDataAuthDiagnostics & Scale

Agenda

What is Windows Azure Mobile Services?

Data

Notifications

Auth

Server Logic

Scale

Logging

Diagnostics

Getting Started a backend for your mobile app in minutes Demo

Structured StorageStructured Storage with SQL DatabaseIf using single database apps are partitioned by schema

AppX.TodoitemAppY.Todoitem

Manage data inPortalSQL Management PortalSQL Management StudioREST API…

Server Logic

Automatic service REST API generated for storageRich querying capabilityDynamic Schema on/offAbility to author server logic that intercepts CRUD operation pipeline

Server Logic

Supported Modules + GlobalsmssqlrequestconsoletablesstatusCodes

mssql.query('select top 1 * from statusupdates', { success: function(results) { console.log(results);

} }

);

REST API to SQL type mappings

JSON Value T-SQL Type

Numeric values (integer, decimal, floating point)

Float

Boolean Bit

DateTime DateTimeOffset(3)

String Nvarchar(max)

Server Logicadding server logic on CRUD

operations Demo

Auth*Authenticate against multiple providersTable level permissions for each CRUD operation

EveryoneAnyone with the Application KeyOnly Authenticated UsersOnly Scripts and Admins

More granular control with server side scriptsuser.level: {admin, authenticated, anonymous}user.userId: id or undefined if not authenticated

Adding Authenticationintegrating with Twitter Demo

Diagnostics, Logging and Scale

DiagnosticsAPI callsCPU TimeData Out

Loggingconsole.error(…)console.log(…)…

Scale - ComputeScale out instance countScale up VM size

Scale - StorageScale to dedicated SQL DBScale up SQL DB

Diagnostics, Logging, Scale

Demo

Free Offer at Preview

Running on shared instances

10 Mobile Services 1GB SQL

Database

Currently only in US DCs

Data transfer is per subscription, not per mobile service

From

WA

Free Tria

lUnlimited ingress

165MB daily egress

Summary

Data

Notifications

Auth

Server Logic

Scale

Logging

Diagnostics

Resources

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Mobile Services Developer Portalhttps://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/

API Reference http://bit.ly/Q3Aq6G

Windows Azure Accountshttp://aka.ms/MobileServices-iOS-SDK

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