Here’s everything you need to securely pull messages from an Azure Storage queue as part of creating a reliable, scalable and extendable asynchronous application.
Setting up an Azure Storage queue to support an asynchronous application is actually pretty straightforward, except for the four different security options that you’ll have to choose between.
If, in your cloud-based application, you can live with eventual consistency, Azure gives you three tools out of the box that will give you reliable, extendable and scalable asynchronous applications.
An App Service’s deployment slots are what you need to support testing/staging in your deployment process. And they’re also a way for you to test the “next” version of your application with real users.