A WALK IN THE CLOUDS

Mark Rodseth@POSSIBLE

A member of the Azure Circle

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• Been around since the birth of the internet

• Concepts like mainframes, thin clients are the heart of the cloud – scalable resources over the internet

• The pioneers were Amazon with AWS in 2006

• Followed by Microsoft (Azure), Google, Rackspace

• AppHarbour , etc….

CLOUD FORMATION

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• Amazon.com - underutilisation of infrastructure

• Built services which allowed a finer grain control of resources

• Architectural principles: ‘Loose Coupling’, ‘Late Binding’, ‘Lazy Loading’

• Continuous Deployment: 11 seconds, 1079 in an hour

• Failure is not an exception

21ST CENTURY ARCHITECTURE

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• A term that is misused and misunderstood

• A provisioning perspective

– Traditional Virtualised Hosting

– Private Cloud

– Public Cloud

CLOUD FORMATIONS

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TRADITIONAL VIRTUALISED HOSTING

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THE PRIVATE CLOUD

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• What makes it Public?

THE PUBLIC CLOUD

• Scale

• Usage Billing

• Access over the internet

• Off Premise infrastructure

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• Pooled Resources

• Self-Service Access

• Elasticity

• Metered Use of Resources

• Put simply, cloud computing allows self-service access to an elastic pool of IT resources

WHEN IS A CLOUD A CLOUD

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MICROSOFT WINDOWS AZURE

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• VMs and Virtual Networking

• Windows or Linux

• MS Azure Templates / VM Library

• RavenDb / Solr / Elastic Search

• Hybrid / On Premise

• Setup EPiServer (demo later)

INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE

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• Web and Worker Roles

• Enterprise : Service Bus, ACS, AD

• Media Services : store, stream, transcode, monetise

• Mobile Services : push, data, auth

• Big Data : HD Insight

• EPiServer CMS Cloud?

PLATFORM AS A SERVICE

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• Salesforce Pioneers

• Behind the Cloud by Mark Benioff

• Challenges selling multi tenant solutions

SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE

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• http://www.project1709.com

• Black Tuesday – Even in the cloud, dispose of your connections

• Rouge Wednesday – Cloud providers struggling with shared infrastructure

• Conceptually it is different- State, Consistency Models, ACS, NoSql, Debugging

• REST is best, Single Page Applications are the future

• The rise of DevOps

LESSONS LEARNED BUILDING A CLOUD PLATFORM

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THE RISE OF DEV OPS

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DEV-OPS-MIKE

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EPISERVER IN THE CLOUD

• Licensing - Fixed IP with Vnet

• VPP File share on backend SQL

• On Premise edit server with Hybrid network

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• Dave Chapel - http://www.davidchappell.com/writing/white_papers.php

• VM Depot - http://vmdepot.msopentech.com/List/Index

• App Harbour - https://appharbor.com/

• Windows Azure - http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/

• Werner Wogels - http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/design-architecture/21st-century-application-architectures

• The Singularity – on Amazon Kindle Store - http://amzn.to/12J4yzC

USEFUL LINKS

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Questions?

THANKS FOR YOUR TIME

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