Windows Azure Platform: Articles from the trenches vol.1 was written by 15 developers sharing their experiences of the platform, combining 20 articles ranging from getting started to best practices. The book can be viewed on-line at:
http://www.slideshare.net/ericnelson/windows-azure-platform-articles-from-the-trenches-volume-one
or can be purchased as a paperback.
Chapter 1: Getting started with Win Azure covers creating an account, creating, packaging and deploying an application plus best tools to use.
Chapter 2: Architecting for Azure covers principles, cost, risk, development and test environment and running java code on Windows Azure.
Chapter 3: Windows Azure covers scaling, blob storage, queries and tables, worker roles, logging and health monitoring and roles.
Chapter 4: SQL Azure goes through process of creating an account, using sql portal and creating a DB.
Chapter 5: Windows Azure Platform AppFabric covers real time tracing of Azure roles.
