Developing UWP Apps: 8 Cloud and Connected Services

- [Scott] With the advent of cloud computing, connecting to scalable, highly performance services from redundant locations across the globe has become a reality. And although the power and flexibility introduced by leveraging cloud and connected services is beyond question, app developers often face the challenge of easily integrating these services into apps in a way that fits modern development paradigms. Back in the old days data would reside locally on a workstation or more robust enterprise apps kept with the client server model where data and services were centralized on a workstation or server introducing its own set of complexity and challenges.

With today's modern application design, the challenges have changed. But the Universal Windows Platform makes it easier than ever to overcome these challenges. I'm Scott J. Peterson, and this is Mastering the Universal Windows Platform Cloud and Connected Services.