Welcome to Windows AzureConf, a free event for the Windows Azure community. This event features a keynote presentation by Scott Guthrie, along with numerous sessions executed by Windows Azure community members. After the keynote, two concurrent sets of sessions will be streamed live for an online audience right here on Channel 9, which will allow you to see how developers just like you are using Windows Azure to develop applications in the cloud. Community members from all over the world join Scott in the Channel 9 studios to present their own ideas, innovations inventions and experiences. These presentations will provide you the opportunity to see how your peers in the community are doing great things using Windows Azure offerings like Mobile Services, Web Sites, Service Bus, virtual machines, and more. Whether you're just learning Windows Azure or you've already achieved success on the platform, you won't want to miss this special event.
Full schedule is posted online at http://www.windowsazureconf.net/Schedule
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Windows Azure Overview
Scott Guthrie will kick off the Windows Azure Conf by presenting an overview of Windows Azure. Scott will demonstrate how to build a wide variety of applications ranging from web sites, mobile applications, and multi-tier cloud services. He will also highlight several of the new Windows Azure features...
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Build Speedy Azure Applications with HTML 5 and Web Sockets Today
In the world of HTML5 development, interoperability is king. Unfortunately, sometimes interoperability can be at the expense of performance. With support for bi-directional, full-duplex messaging simply out of the reach of the HTTP protocol, messaging support in HTML5 can be severely limited. Fortunately,...
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Solving Security and Compliance Challenges with Hybrid Clouds
When considering public clouds, many industries and companies have concerns about security, intellectual property and regulatory compliance challenges. The good news is a hybrid cloud can often solve these challenges. In this session, Eric D. Boyd will teach you how to use Windows Azure and still protect...
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Windows Azure Services Throttling and Fault Handling
In this session you will understand how Windows Azure components being exposed as services from a multi-tenant environment can throttle or generate transient faults because of heavy loads on the resources in Microsoft’s datacenters, or because of networking problems. Then you will find out how to deal...
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Windows Azure + Twilio == A Happy Tale to Tell
Taking advantage of Twilio’s awesomeness and Windows Azure’s scalability, we decided to build a phone and SMS center in the cloud. It was finished with some salt from ASP.NET MVC Web API and bonded with SignalR and knockout.js. The end result was tasty and I’m here to share the tale and the recipe of...
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How Mural.ly Achieves Great Performance for a Low Cost
Come on and see how we are serving 80K request per hour per server on only two small instances. We'll share our secrets on how Mural.ly uses a canonical operation model that converts into MongoDB statements that it uses to keep the murals updated while sorting out concurrency issues. Throughout the sessions...
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Elevating Windows Azure Deployments
One of the core tenet for working with cloud services is automation. When it comes to deploying our new cloud solutions, we want to automate the process as much as possible. Though Visual Studio and the Windows Azure online management portal make deployments pretty easy, they don't automate the deployment...
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Building Elastic, Autoscalable Solutions with Windows Azure
In this session you will learn how to implement true elasticity for your Windows Azure solutions. You will see how to automate the scaling of your Worker/Web Role instances depending on predictable usage patterns. Whether you expect high load during business hours and low load during the nights, or have...
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Continuous Delivery Zen with Windows Azure
Ever felt that you spend more time packing deployments, configuring test environments and deploying the latest build in order to please the testers than you spend writing actual code? Had your flow interrupted by the boss wanting a demo environment set up for a customer demo? Fortunately built into the...