Building a citizen sensor network in Windows Azure

Richard Conway

Introduction

AgendaSome cloudy factsOfferings for mobile devsCapturing data from mobilesScaling with websitesStorage scaling techniquesOther important things

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WhoRichard Conway, co-founder of the UK Windows Azure Users Group, Windows Azure MVP and Insider and lover of all things Cloud, HPC, Big Data and Machine Learning! Director of Microsoft Partner Elastacloud. Follow @azurecoder

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Device developers need to think about …. scale

2015 est

2012

2bn

1bnUnprecedented growth

The number of internet connected devices is sky rocketing.

The trend shows no sign of slowing.

Node.js server handles 2.4k/sec requests

Or 1.2 million servers needed to deal with requests from all of them

Scenario outline Mobile/IoT

9bn

What is the cloud?

An approach to computing that’s about internet scale and connecting to a variety of devices and endpoints

Cloud Computing

Software-as-a-Service

consume

SaaSPlatform-as-a-Service

build

PaaSInfrastructure-as-a-

Service

host

IaaS

Potential Workloads

PredictabilityDevices may report periodically (hourly temperature reading)Devices may interact frequently (retrieve news)

UnpredictabilityDevices may respond to user input (milk taken from fridge)Devices may be free to communicate (peer discovery)

Predictable Burst

Unpredictable Burst

Growing Fast“On and Off”

Com

pute

Time

Only a scalable elastic computing infrastructure can solve this scalability challenge; such as Windows Azure

Inside a Microsoft Data Center

Mobile Services

What is Windows Azure Mobile Services?

Data

Notifications

Auth

Server LogicLogging & Diag

ScaleScheduler

Controlling data with Mobile Services Demo

Websites

Your Datacenter

Virtualization

O/S

Hardware

Network

Data

Applications

Firewall

Web Sites

Applications

Data

Cloud Services

Applications

Firewall Rules

Data

Virtual Network

Virtual Machines

Virtual Network

Data

Applications

Firewall Rules

O/S

Focus on the Application

Windows Azure

Supported Publishing Methods

FTP:// TFS WEBDEPLOY

DROPBOX

Supported Web Frameworks

Or any custom FastCGI Handler

Scaling with Windows Azure Websites Demo

Table Storage

Table Storage Concepts

EntityTableAccount

contoso

Name =…Email = …

Name =…EMailAdd=

customers

Photo ID =…Date =…

photos

Photo ID =…Date =…

No Fixed Schema

FIRST LAST BIRTHDATE

Andy Cross 2/2/1981

Richard Conway 8/11/1974

Isaac Abraham 5/8/1977

FAV SPORT

Sailing

Windows Azure Storage

Storage in the CloudScalable, durable, and availableAnywhere at anytime accessOnly pay for what the service uses

Exposed via RESTful Web ServicesUse from Windows Azure ComputeUse from anywhere on the internet

Scaling with Tables Demo

Applicationbuilding blocks

StorageBig data

Caching

CDN

Database

Identity

Media

Messaging

Networking

Traffic

Questions?