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…

This ARCast features Michael Manos who leads all the datacenters for Microsoft globally. Michael is leading Microsoft’s transformation into massive scale datacenter environments for Web 2.0 and online services. Michael is interviewed by Lewis Curtis.

(Photo by John Kerstholt) The notion that non-tech-industry people should care about cloud computing continues to weasel its way into mainstream media and popular culture, most recently with a slew of stories about how last week's East Coast storms were to blame for the unscheduled downtime that…

In this video I'm spilling the beans on some of the internal structures we set up for Service Bus for you to consider and potentially adapt as your building out your own global services on Windows Azure - Environments are deployment zones for separate purposes and Scale Units are…

Architecting for the cloud means understanding and embracing the fundamental aspects of it.  Commodity hardware at scale requires a scale out vs. scale up approach.  Commodity hardware fails and very few services provide 100% uptime SLAs.  This session, delivered by Ulrich Homann 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 Ulrich Homann and Marc Mercuri, includes coverage of scalability and deployment considerations for scalable and resilient systems. Topics include scale units, fault domains and upgrade domains, resilient fault handling and circuit breakers, data decomposition, data…

A continuation of the previous session, this session, delivered by Ulrich Homann and Marc Mercuri, continues coverage of core concepts. Topics such as functional decomposition, business architecture, throttling, failure points, and failure modes.

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,…

Bob Familiar interviews Dennis McCarthy, a software architect at Kronos about his research into leveraging Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 as an S+S Platform.