Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Energy Efficient Cloud Computing for Developers http://ak.channel9.msdn.com/ch9/cb85/aeefcb35-2615-4b1b-ae3c-a0010168cb85/EnergyEfficientCloudDev_100_ch9.jpg Channel 9 - Energy Efficient Cloud Computing for Developers Datacenter energy efficiency is a hot topic these days (how to keep thousands of machines cool without consuming too many electrons, etc.), but something that doesn't get quite as much attention in terms of datacenter energy efficiency is the code running on the servers that make up the cloud datacenter—i.e., the cloud applications written by developers. As developers, you have the power to save power! This is important to realize as we enter the cloud era. Your bosses will be quite pleased if you do your best to not only make sure your code is as efficient as possible, but that the monthly bills from your company's cloud providers are as low as possible. We live in a new age. This is a very important topic. In this developer-focused discussion, Mark Aggar, Senior Director of IT Environmental Sustainability at Microsoft (You've met him before), and Grigori Melnik, Program Manager in the Patterns and Practices group, share insights and recommendations about building energy efficient applications for the cloud. Grigori's team has made WASABI—an autoscaling application block for Windows Azure. If you're a Windows Azure developer, you should most definitely download this application block and try it out. It could literally save you money.Related links/Learn more: http://www.microsoft.com/environment/ IT Energy Efficiency Imperative (download file via link) The Green Grid Forum Energy smart coding for client Autoscaling How-To Guide Grigori's blog Mark's blog Microsoft Patterns & Practices Dev Center en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:37:42 GMT Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:37:42 GMT Rev9 Re: Energy Efficient Cloud Computing for Developers Cool.  I'll have to check out WASABI.

I recently signed up with Azure for a new project of mine.  It's a software as a service model where other website owners will install a snippet on their website to gain specialized insights and uncover problems.  

So of course its popularity is unpredictable at this point, but it has the potential to see an enormous number of requests every day and may even see drastic bursts of traffic.  So scaling has always been at the back of my mind as I'm building it.  

Furthermore, it's absolutely true that Azure makes you think about efficiency.  Since you're essentially paying for usage, it encourages you to make your application as efficient as possible.  I'm always thinking about this as I'm writing the code, designing the database, etc.  

I recently incorporated an optimization technique where I'm storing a temporary list of updates in-memory (I'll move this over to Azure Cache soon for better reliability).  Then I send these updates to SQL Azure and Azure Table Storage once every minute.  Due to my schema design, I'm able to greatly reduce the total number of inserts/updates that have to be performed by using this technique. 

posted by Steve Wortham

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Energy-Efficient-Cloud-Computing-for-Developers#c634660578922992189 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:31:32 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Energy-Efficient-Cloud-Computing-for-Developers#c634660578922992189 Steve Wortham Re: Energy Efficient Cloud Computing for Developers @Steve Wortham: Excellent, Steve. With a policy-based autoscaling system like WASABI you'll be able to extend your efficient design thinking to the datacenter's virtualized infrasctructure, however you'll need to account for unpredictable surges, which you can - and which you seem to be thinking about already - in your own design and implementation.

Keep it up!

C

posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Energy-Efficient-Cloud-Computing-for-Developers#c634660807124741145 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:51:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Energy-Efficient-Cloud-Computing-for-Developers#c634660807124741145 Charles Re: Energy Efficient Cloud Computing for Developers There is a weird frame in the vid at 5:43 / 5:44 but I couldn't catch what it was. Subliminal message from Charles maybe. I can't tell but I can't resist the urge to go out to eat at Joes Crab Shack. Smiley

posted by Dark_Halmut

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Energy-Efficient-Cloud-Computing-for-Developers#c634665204245762272 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:00:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Energy-Efficient-Cloud-Computing-for-Developers#c634665204245762272 Dark_Halmut