Azure Storage - Part 3
This is final part 3 of Azure Storage Service. We talked about it in earlier articles Part 1 and Part 2 . Azure Storage API Azure Storage provides a REST API to work with the containers and data stored in each account. There are independent APIs available to work with each type of data you can store. · Blobs for unstructured data such as binary and text files. · Queues for persistent messaging. · Tables for structured storage of key/values. · Files for traditional SMB file shares. Storage REST APIs are accessible from anywhere on the Internet, by any application that can send an HTTP/HTTPS request and receive an HTTP/HTTPS response. For example (HTTP) GET https://[url-for-service-account]/?comp=list&include=metadata – This returns the data in XML format. This requires there a lot of manual parsing and the creation of HTTP packets to work with each API. To avoid such cumbersome process, Azure provides pre-bui