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 application.

This session, delivered by Mark Simms, will explore how to design for failure, understanding the impact and design choices for distributed services. This session will cover failure at node, service, and regional levels.

The session will cover the wide range of options for managing data, compositional approaches, and how to balance competing priorities.

The session will cover core Azure platform capabilities, scale units, and approaches to achieving the best utilization/density. Intra and Inter Service Communication Patterns are also be covered.

This session, delivered by Marc Mercuri, covers topics including cloud considerations for ALM, health modeling, troubleshooting workflows for self-healing systems, and telemetry and insight.

Topics include scale units, fault domains and upgrade domains, resilient fault handling and circuit breakers, data decomposition, data partitioning, caching, CDN, deployment redundancy, backups, latency, and hybrid considerations.

This session, delivered by Ulrich Homann and Marc Mercuri, covers the core concepts and considerations for developing scalable, resilient applications in this environment that the rest of the course is built upon.

Topics in part one include SLA considerations, resource constraints, decomposing by workload, lifecycle modeling, and availability modeling.

Host Jonathan Rozenblit is always on the search for stories of Canadian developers who have either built new applications using Windows Azure services or have migrated existing applications to Windows Azure. Canada Does Windows Azure shares their stories.

This is the story of RESAAS.

RESAAS
RESAAS is a technology company that has built a fully-integrated technology platform to service all participants of the real estate industry, including professionals, such as realtors and mortgage specialists, and home buyers and sellers. The Company's mission is to connect real estate professionals, mortgage specialists, home buyers and sellers through our enterprise technology platform and allow them to communicate in "real time", allowing for faster and easier communication between industry participants. RESAAS' enterprise technology platform is built on Microsoft Windows Azure.  

ANDREW THOMPSON
Andrew Thompson is the VP of Engineering at RESAAS and is responsible for all aspects of RESAAS' scalable technology platform built on top of Microsoft Windows Azure. He has prior experience as a software engineer building applications with C# .NET, Java and C/C++ languages using Agile and continuous integration/deployment practices for medical, financial, digital media and social based technology companies. He currently resides in Vancouver, Canada and has a technical blog at http://andrewmatthewthompson.blogspot.ca.

Live Q&A with Jean Lozano.

CLD280 - Lessons Learned From Building a Digital Asset Management System in the Cloud
In this session, Jean Lozano discusses various development strategies that he and his team learned while ramping up development on Windows Azure. You'll learn the lessons they learned from various cloud-related challenges faced during development and from an application support/maintenance perspective. This presentation will focus on insights acquired from architecting, building and maintaining a business application on Windows Azure over the last two years, using examples from MediaValet , a multi-tenant digital asset management system that was designed and developed from the ground up on Windows Azure.

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Jean Lozano (Twitter, LinkedIn)

In this session, Jean Lozano discusses various development strategies that he and his team learned while ramping up development on Windows Azure. You'll learn the lessons they learned from various cloud-related challenges faced during development and from an application support/maintenance perspective. This presentation will focus on insights acquired from architecting, building and maintaining a business application on Windows Azure over the last two years, using examples from MediaValet , a multi-tenant digital asset management system that was designed and developed from the ground up on Windows Azure.

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This Session's Experts

Jean Lozano (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Take advantage of this special about Cloud Patterns and Practices to dive a little deeper into one of the hot topics of the moment during the summer months. We have information geared to fit in with your busy schedule. Only have 30 minutes or half a day to spare? Choose from the basics through to the best tools and resources for getting to know these important patterns and practices like the back of your hand.

Cloud Patterns and Practices is the third topic that we're diving into this summer. You can expect one last topic by mid-August on the Windows Azure Platform Interoperability.

So keep an eye on your mailbox and dive in this summer with MSDN!

Explore and dive into Cloud Patterns and Practices

When designing and building architectures, architects need to be able to rely on a repository filled with commonly used patterns and best practices. Not only for avoiding pitfalls made by their predecessors, but also for saving time in building the solution and delivering value to their customers.

Building cloud-oriented solutions is not different as such. The paradigm is different and the patterns and practices used might be different as well, but the objectives are still the same: avoiding mistakes, maximizing the potential
of the architecture and delivering cost-effective value to customers.

Are you ready to explore the different Cloud Patterns and Practices? Have alook at our website and discover a handpicked choice of articles, whitepapers and videos on the subject.


Speaker : Bart Vande Ghinste

Other interesting Summer Campaigns :

- For IT Professionals : Virtualisation(Part 1), Desktop Deployment,Virtualisation (Part 2)

- For Independant Software Vendors : Leveraging the Cloud, Unlocking your Data, Mobility Scenarios

- For Developers : Windows Phone 7 Mango, Visual Studio 2010 ALM, HTML5

Cloud Power Next Generation Datacenter

Speaker : Rudy Van Hoe

With the growing interest in "cloud computing", the subject of Identity is
moving into the limelight. Kim Cameron is a legend in the identity architecture
and engineering space. He is currently the chief architect for Microsoft's
identity platform and a key contributor to the field at large.

Traditionally, the identity stops at the edge of a domain - it works within a
closed boundary and that's it. If all your computing resources are local, then
they can be within that boundary, and all is fine.

However, as you move into a world where we want to take advantage of
resources and services within the cloud - we don't control aspects of this - so
we need identity that can reach beyond the edge of our own domain. Kim talks
about how they create an infrastructure that allows claims to be made both
within and outside of the domain, and be shared between them. He will also begin
a conversation about the future of Microsoft’s directory
technology.

by Kim Cameron

Given the tremendous attention and company focus that Cloud computing is
getting lately, people might wonder what it actually takes to get upon the
wagon. This session will focus from a practical point of view on what is
currently possible with the Microsoft Azure platform whereby we will elaborate
on different aspects such as data handling and storage, security, cross-domain
connectivity, inter-role communication, debugging tactics, logging, potential
costs and overall benefits of working in the cloud.

by Miguel De Lathouwer

PDC 2010 has been completed successfully and a whole range of new features
have been announced when it comes to cloud computing. Part of the announcements
contained significant changes in how we deal with security and interoperability
and much more. During this session you will learn what the new features are,
when they are available and how they can be used by you in architecting cloud
based solutions.

by Bart Vande Ghinste

Infrastructure as a Service: Principles and Patterns for the Private Cloud

Dynamic Data Center (DDC) is the provider's perspective on Infrastructure as
a Service. This session, aimed at Architects, and Operations Managers, provides
an introduction to DDC architectural and IT Service Management principles,
concepts and patterns derived from Microsoft’s own data centers. It identifies
the drivers which make customers want to build a DDC and uses the DDC Reference
Model to show how different aspects of IT technology and processes are impacted.

Speakers: Travis Gerber, Senior Product Manager Microsoft Data Services,
Microsoft Corporation. Alberto Boczar, Technical Architect, Microsoft
Corporation.

Alberto Boczar introduces his session called 'Infrastructure as a Service: Principles and Patterns for the Private Cloud'

Eduardo Kassner introduces his session called 'The Road to a Private Cloud Infrastructure'

·         Bid Now Sample at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/BidNowSample.

·         Windows Azure Platform training kit and Channel 9 learning course.

·         Windows Azure MMC

·         Windows Azure Table Browser

·         Windows Azure Management PowerShell CmdLets

In this episode David talks to Bob Familiar about the architecture patterns that lend themselves to building scalable services for the cloud.