Azure – The Next Frontier

Dave BostDeveloper EvangelistMicrosoft Corporation

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A set of connected servers On which developers can:

Install and run services Store and retrieve data

What Is The Cloud?

Use Case – Erratic Traffic

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Use Case – Erratic Traffic

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Use Case – New Site Launch

Azure is a blue color on the HSV color wheel at 210 degrees. Azure is the hue that is halfway between blue and cyan. Its complementary color is orange.

Azure is a near synonym for the color blue. Commonly it refers to a bright blue, resembling the sky on a bright, clear day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure

Windows Azure

Windows Azure is the foundation of Microsoft’s Cloud Platform

It is an “Operating System for the Cloud” and provides Essential Services for the Cloud Virtualized Computation Scalable Storage Automatic Management Developer SDK

Windows Azure isa place to run your

applications.

Windows Azure isa cloud computing platform,

so it’s designed to scale.

Windows Azure isa utility computing platform,so you pay for what you use.

Inside are many servers.

with VMs running Windows.

We call this the Fabric,

and it’s where your app runs.

Your Application

Management tasks are automated by the

Fabric Controller.

You tell the Fabric Controller what to do, and it figures

out how to do it.

Azure™ Services Platform

A Look Inside Azure

ServiceBus

AccessControl

Workflow

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Database

Reporting

Analytics

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Compute Storage Manage

Identity

Devices

Contacts

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Your Applications

Blobs – provide a simple interface for storing named files along with metadata for the file

Tables – provide structured storage. A table is a set of entities, which contain a set of properties

Queues – provide reliable storage and delivery of messages for an application

Windows Azure Storage Abstractions

Simple Interface: REST, ADO.NET Data Services

Consistent, Familiar Development

Visual Studio Templates Debugging

.NET platform .NET, IIS7, WCF

“The cloud on your desktop” Complete offline cloud simulation Like Cassini (web development server)

Not Just Websites

Cloud services aren’t just websites

Many other types of work for the cloud Bulk file conversion Heavy analytics Finding extraterrestrials

Even websites can offload async work

We need a more complex architecture

Publishing Your Service To The Cloud

1. Write code on your laptop2. Upload your package to the web portal3. Push “deploy”

4. Monitor, upgrade, scale…

Debugging in the Cloud

Debugging the cloud really means logging

Simple logging API today

More functionality over time

Using Azure Table Storage

Demo

Designed to encourage best practices Stateless compute + durable storage Co-location of computation and data Queues for asynchronous processing

An open platform Connect outbound to any server Open protocols and APIs on all components

Takeaways: Windows Azure Is

Open release of the desktop SDK Limited preview of the cloud infrastructure

Free usage, with quotas Key features:

VMs with dedicated resources Automated service management Simple service architectures ASP.net websites, managed code workers Storage: Blobs, tables, queues Single, large datacenter on U.S. west coast

Technical PreviewStarts now!

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