Highlights
COMPLETEY demo driven, but I wouldn’t really recommend watching this one
Azure is built using web standards (uri, HTTP, XML)
Exposes functionality so you can use it
Gives you choices/options for how you can take your code and hook your apps into it
Show an application that they built that lists processes on a box via a RESTful service.
Var request = WebRequest.Create(url
Request.getresponse
Showing how to manually call GET or DELETE against a RESTful service to list/kill the processes.
Net services Service bus
Going to host this service so that others can use it
Presentation will cover how to architect Azure services
Describe the service life cycle management
Show how azure architecture enables automation
Show how developers are freed from cloud platform issues
Main points of the presentation
• Cloud services have specific design considerations
○ Are always on, distributed, large scale, failure is expected so how to handle
• Azure is an OS for the cloud
○ Handles scale out, dynamic and on-demand.
○ Each machine is running its own kernel
○ But all the services sitting on top are what make up the Azure OS
• Azure managers services not just servers
○ Tell it what you want, and it will help automate the details
○ Servers, load balancers, etc.
○ Just describe what you want, and it auto deploys it all
• Azure frees devs from all the underlying stuff
○ Allows developers to concentrate on the business logic instead of cloud logic
They need our help building services. If we build it correctly, MS can help us automate things and make them healthy.Cloud computing is based on scale out not scale up (scaling outwards with lots of parallel computers, rather than scaling up and just beefing up a single computer with more ram)
Automation is the key to reducing costs
Talk is composed of 90% demos, so noting down what he does
In this session he is aims to create a blog website hosted on Azure using ASP.Net MVC & Azure storage
Azure SDK provides a “consistent, familiar development” environment.
Can use .Net, IIS7, WCF
The ‘cloud on your desktop’ development environment is a lot like cassini. When I develop my website and click run, my webpage is launched. But instead of cassini, the developer fabric spins up instances and runs my website.
Can develop in Visual Web developer Express
Windows Azure is an OS system for the cloud
Background
“What is the cloud” it is a set of connected servers on which developers can
To put it into perspective. Right now if you want to go build and run a desktop app.
Why are we all doubling up on this? We’re also replicating the same stuff with cloud services today.
Then we finally write some logic on top of all of this
On the desktop an OS helps abstract some of this away
Windows Azure is an OS in the cloud to help us just concentrate on writing business logic and not how to handle all the other stuff
As i mentioned, i’m going to post up all of my notes from the PDC sessions i watch.
Day 1 keynote was about the cloud
Day 2 is all about client technologies
I shared my notes internally at Readify and since there was such a good response to it, i’m going to post the notes online for all the keynotes and sessions I watch.
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