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 modelwww.flickr.com/photos/januszbc/1776184496
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 saleshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/39919537@N06/3666813048
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 as appropriatewww.flickr.com/photos/39818355@N00/2128626176
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 cloudwww.flickr.com/photos/tomkpunkt/3695066577
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