Free intro book on cloud development with Microsoft Azure

This (free) book contains e.g. practices for DevOps, data storage, high availabilityand is available in PDF, EPUB and MOBI format.

The book walks you through a patterns-based approach to building cloud solutions. These apply to the development process, architecture and coding practices.

See the following link:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2014/07/23/free-ebook-building-cloud-apps-with-microsoft-azure.aspx?loc=zatfz_zTS2z&prod=zAzz&tech=zCLz&lang=zOtLangz&prog=zPressz&type=zBkz&country=zUSz