a lap around azure
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My "A Lap Around Azure" presentation from the Microsoft TechDays event in London on 15th April 2010TRANSCRIPT
- 1. SESSION CODE: Thur 16:15
A Lap Around the Azure Platform
David Gristwoood
Application Architect
Microsoft
blogs.msdn.com/david_gristwood
@ScroffTheBad
2. Many Screens and a Cloud
3. The Azure Philosophy
4. Azure is about Scale
- Azure is designed from the ground up for true Internet scale
5. Global presence 6. Ride the network effect 7. LinkedIn: 16
months for first million users, 11 days for most recent million 8.
Facebook:5 years to hit 250m users, 8 months to double 9. Scale up
and scale down 10. Supports the Scale Fast, Fail Fast
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11. Characteristics of Azure Applications
Scale & Elasticity
- Need massive scale
12. Need high reliability 13. Have variable load 14. Have short
or unpredictable lifetime 15. Concert ticket
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16. Helps Your Systems Scale
- Most architecture is hidden inside code
17. Azure encourages you to define your application into
constituent parts 18. Azure can scale the parts of your application
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19. Flexible Architecture
- Systems evolve over time
20. Cloud is not an all or nothing proposition 21. Azure makes
it easier to extend to the
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22. Natural Platform Evolution
- Windows Server 2008
23. Virtualisation 24. Windows Services, such as IIS, logging, diagnostics, etc 25. Visual Studio & .NET, ADO.NET, WCF Data Services, MVC, etc