Building a Scalable Online Game with Azure

Building a Scalable Online Game with Azure is a blog series on Gamasutra with five detailed steps:

1. General Architectural Design Of Online Games In The Cloud
2. Adding A Web Service That Acts As Interface Between The Frontend And The Actual Backend Services
3. Persisting State To A Scalable Database
4. Creating A Small Universal Windows Platform Game That Accesses Our Backend
5. Deploying The Application To The Cloud (editor approval pending)

There's a Git tag for each part of the series in case you missed anything or want to skip anything.

License

Building a Scalable Online Game with Azure is released under the MIT license.