The team behind the Windows Azure Platform are introducing a new technical library called “Real World Windows Azure Guidance“.
At the moment there’s only a single article in the library, but over time it will contain more articles written by members of the community (MVP’s and other who have hands-on experience with Azure).
Add it to you bookmark section or even better, subscribe via RSS
Buck Woody did a nice blog posting on Azure divided into relevant categories (Architecture, Storage, Compute, SQL Azure, Security etc..).
Use the “Windows Azure Learning Plan” as an entry point in your searching for Azure ressources.
Datatilsynet kom for et stykke tid siden med en afgørelse omkring cloud basererede løsninger i offentlig regi. Afgørelsen er truffet på baggrund af Odenses kommunes ønske om en kommunal cloudløsning baseret på Google Apps.
Trods den nedadvendte tommelfinger fra Datatilsynet, ser det nu ud som om at Videnskabsministeriet kommer den fremsynede kommune til undsætning i form af en tværministiel arbejdsgruppe.
Yesterday the Azure Team announced several updates to the Azure Platform at the MIX11 Conference
This might be old news – but for me it’s not: My favorite CMS tool Umbraco now supports Azure – more info here
You definitely want to check the web app “CloudSleuth” from Compuware if you just a bit interested in Cloud availability and performance (broadly spoken so to say
).
Check the availability or the response time of the different providers (MS, Google, Amazon etc). Or monitor your own cloud application! And what about Content Delivery Network? Can it improve the overall performance of your app?
Richard Parker shows you how to do a simple NoCodeDeploy2AzureApp in less than 90 seconds. You probably think “for what use”? But it actually shows you the simple workflow you will go through (more or less) whether it’s a full blown app or a demo app.
A funky example of a Azure Cloud App called Montage brought to you by the creative people from Microsoft FUSE lab – Check it out and made some montage yourself (as I did in a not-so-creative-moment:-))
To boil it down to the (very) basic, the Windows Azure Platform is comprised of the following components/services:
| 1. Compute service | This is where your service run. It’s a virtualized 64bit Windows 2008 Server instance (or more) with IIS 7 enabled for ASP.NET web applications. |
| 2. Storage service | This is where you store unstructured data. There are three types of storage models available: tables, blobs and queues. All three supports REST-based access. |
| 3. SQL Azure | This is where you store structured data (!). Build on the core SQL Server code base. Currently supporting up to 50 GB database. |
| 4. Windows Azure AppFabric | A platform layer (.NET Services) acting as the middleware. Can be seen as a integration backbone of the entire platform offering connectivity and message capabilities (service bus) as well as access control services for cloud service and on-premise application. |
Keep in mind that you can use each technology individually or together to build up a solution running in the cloud – all depending on the actually business requirements of your application.
Jeg kan desværre ikke selv deltage – men kraftig anbefale denne TechTalk – det er 2 superfolk der afholder det (Mark Seemann og Thomas Jespersen som er en af hovedudviklerne bag Azure løsningen Spiir).
Foredraget falder i to dele: Først en generel introduktion til CQRS, efterfulgt af en konkret gennemgang af et kodeeksempel mod Windows Azure (Spiir.dk).
