Windows Azure

We’ve hit Part 10 in our Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1 series, and in today’s episode Keith Mayer and Yung Chou discuss how you can protect your newly created private cloud with Data Protection Manager. Tune in as they discuss disaster recovery solutions and performance…

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…

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…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:33] XBox Event May 21, 10AM PDT [01:10] Windows AzureConf 2013 [02:07] Introducing: Code Digger, an extension for VS2012 (Nikolai Tillmann ) [03:06] TypeScript Announcing 0.9 early previews (Jonathan Turner)…

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.

Today's Modern Monday project is by Petri Wilhelmsen and takes you by the hand and walks you through creating a new Windows Store App game that leverages Azure Game Starterkit for Windows 8 with leaderboard in Windows AzureThis Game Starter Kit for Windows 8 contains what you need to get started…

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 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…

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 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…