Problem:
we needed a RESTful WebApi up and running as soon as possible in order to start clients development with a draft API, we have very limited time. Within today webapi first release must be available.
Solution:
let’s use MVC4 WebApi on Azure with Table Storage. In this way we’re able to have everything up and running in a very short amount of time.
What about learning and development time? In this case for Azure the best solution is going for http://wag.codeplex.com Part 2 where Patterns&Practices shows a great implementation of a web site MVC 3 connected to all possible repositories on Azure:
- Table Storage
- Queue Storage
- Blob Storage
- SQL Azure
Together with ACS, Caching and a lot of good patterns and tests. The architectural change we applied is the usage of Unity with WebApi. To do this we used Unity.WebApi package from: http://www.devtrends.co.uk/blog/introducing-the-unity.webapi-nuget-package
If something good comes out from this phase we’ll post it in the blog to share it