Cloud Architecture

Everything that you read these days seems to suggest that you should be moving to the cloud. But where do you start? Which applications and services should you be moving? How do you build the bridge between on-premises and the cloud? And more importantly, what should you be looking out for along…

Cloud Computing is often presented as an esoteric technology that is only interesting to large companies. In point of fact, small- and medium-sized companies will find the economics and technology opportunities very compelling. Shy Cohen and Michael Stiefel discuss why this is so, and why…

What's the latest on Windows Azure and Microsoft's cloud platform? David Chappell discusses his perspective on this fast-changing area with Bob Familiar.

It's always a pleasure to converse with my old friend and colleague, David Chappell (www.davidchappell.com), this time in London during his world tour where he has been talking about cloud computing, Windows Azure and its impact on developers. In this interview, I get the chance to discuss…

Cloud services run 24x7 and at scale. Failures will happen. Good software will be instrumented to help operations and developers pinpoint the location of the issues. Great software will automate diagnosis, resolution, and verification based on known patterns. This session, delivered by Marc Mercuri,…

This session, delivered by Mark Simms, will provide an understanding of Azure platform capabilities and scalability targets. It also explores key intra-service communication patterns, discussing choices and tradeoffs. The session will cover core Azure platform capabilities, scale units, and…

This session, delivered by Mark Simms, will provide an understanding of the various options for data management in Azure and help you map system capabilities against solution requirements. The session will cover the wide range of options for managing data, compositional approaches, and how to…

This session, delivered by Mark Simms, will explore elements of scalability; partition, optimize, and shift. The session will also provide an understanding of the capacity limits of Azure platform services and scalability approaches.

In a world where dependent services and platforms are not 100% available, architects must embrace that given enough time and pressure, all things will fail. This session, delivered by Mark Simms, will explore how to design for failure, understanding the impact and design choices for distributed…

The limit of scale and availability is the limit of insight. This session, delivered by Mark Simms, explores options and implementation approaches for instrumenting and monitoring applications on Azure. The session also covers configuration and change management practices for delivering a manageable…