Summary

F# and Windows Azure pair up very nicely. As I’ve shown you throughout this chapter, interacting with Windows Azure through the Windows Azure SDK for .NET and F# is even easier than doing so with C# or VB.NET. With a library such as Fog, that experience becomes trivial. Additionally, frameworks such as {m}brace, Cloud Numerics, and Hadoop Streaming and F# MapReduce allow you to use the power of F# to handle large data sets and/or computationally intensive requirements without breaking a sweat.

In the next chapter we’ll dive into additional ways to increase the speed of your F#-based web solutions and allow them to scale to large proportions. I’ll walk you through creating web sockets, using SignalR in web and mobile scenarios, storing data with the help of various NoSQL solutions, and more.