Lock note has begun. Frank’s back and is warming up the crowd. A few stats about the backbone of TechEd… Some big numbers in those stats…12,000ms of cable! 2.2 TBs of data, tracked! No pr0n… Frank introduced me to Twitter, speaking of… 5 days to install and 7 hours to […]
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You can count on one of three things failing: hardware, software, or people. One of the most important considerations when moving applications into the public cloud is how to plan for – and mitigate – these failures. Certainly there are best practices in building any application that help you to […]
Most developers are familiar with the concept of scaling out their application tier; with SQL Azure Federations it is now possible to scale out the data tier as well. In this session we will deep dive on building large scale solutions on SQL Azure. In this session we will cover […]
“Casablanca is a Microsoft incubation effort to support cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. Think of it as Node.js, but using C++. Casablanca gives you the power to use existing native C++ libraries and code to do awesome things on the server. Come […]
Follow me on Twitter @ausrob maybe? At 12:30pm today, with green band on my arm (and extra swag in the conference bag), a group of helicopter flight winners made our way to the side of the convention building to await the promised chopper. We were split into groups of five, […]
This session will present extensions to the Azure StockTrader application to run on mobile devices including Windows Phone, IPhone, and Android devices. The sample application includes a backend powered by the Windows Azure Service Bus and SQL Azure with Federations to enable data display and user interface to be optimized […]
So, you’re building apps that span multiple devices and you’re curious about what the cloud can offer. Is it possible to deploy scalable web apps and services on Windows Azure? How about storing data in the cloud? Is it possible to use the cloud for push notifications to the device? […]
The Enterprise Library Integration Pack for Windows Azure from the p&p group provides some useful application blocks such as the Transient Fault Handling Application Block and the Windows Azure Scaling Application Block (WASABi). The Transient Fault Handling Application Block can make access to storage in the cloud more resilient to […]
Best practices in the Identity Management world come hard-won, and are often discovered only after going down paths that seemed perfectly reasonable at the time, only to find they don’t scale or adapt to new business requirements. Projects fail for many non-technical reasons – politics, resistance to change, poor data […]
In this session, learn about the DPC (Database Private Cloud) Reference Architecture and how it can be used to consolidate thousands of databases on a single scalable platform. The session will drill into the hardware and software configuration and cover how its wired together. We will cover the use cases, […]
Node.js is a platform for building fast, high-scale applications in JavaScript. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that allows developers to quickly and easily create everything from simple websites to high-scale real-time applications. In this session you will learn how to build, deploy, and host your Node.js application on […]
In this session, William Tulloch and Mahesh Krishnan, authors of the book "Introducing .NET 4.5" talk about all the new stuff in .NET 4.5. If there is one session that you want to go to that covers all the important bits in .NET 4.5, this is it. Presented by William […]
There are numerous options available for data storage available on Windows Azure and it can be very difficult to pick the right one for a given application profile. This session will evaluate many of the various storage options available to the Azure developer in terms of their: – Ease of […]
Here’s a bit of a look outside the sessions at TechEd 2012: Last night at the Marketplace Awesome driving games Busy but worth it! Lego(tm) that LegoRepublic would be jealous of! Yes – that *is* a see through interactive monitor of sorts Get your photo taken with a Halo 4 […]
Architecting a private cloud presents many complex design decisions and technology tradeoffs. These decisions touch areas such as network topologies, storage architecture selection, performance, reliability, security, dynamic virtual machine deployment, and interoperability with existing architecture. This talk presents a few canonical architectures that highlight interesting design decisions of a private […]