The summer holiday is almost over, but still some time left to read at least one more ebook. Why not end with a cloud related book, especially when it’s free?! I can recommend ‘Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure’. It covers the full process of building and deploying an application in a ‘cloud-optimized’ way. From the introduction: This ebook walks you through a patterns-based approach to building real-world cloud solutions. The patterns apply to the development process as well as to architecture and coding practices. The content is based on a presentation developed by Scott Guthrie and delivered by him at the Norwegian Developers Conference (NDC) in June of 2013 ( part 1 , part 2 ), and at Microsoft Tech Ed Australia in September 2013 ( part 1 , part 2 ). Many others updated and augmented the content while transitioning it from video to written form. You can download a completely free PDF, Mobi or ePub version of the ebook: Download the PDF (6.35