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ARCast.TV - Scaling Facebook Applications with Windows Azure

Bob Familiar — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:13:00 GMT

How do you meet the unknown scalability requirements for viral social networking Facebook applications? Thuzi is a Microsoft partner who has created a framework for delivering viral social networking campaigns via Facebook using Windows Azure, ASP.NET MVC, and the Facebook .NET SDK.

They launched on November 5th (before release at the PDC) and had grown Outback's fan base to over 450k in a matter of days via an innovative Facebook offer for a free "Blooming Onion" promotion.

In this session from PDC 09, Jim Zimmerman from Thuzi talks about how they leveraged the capabilities of Windows Azure to provide the scalable web, messaging, and storage infrastructure that are an absolute requirement to meet the harsh demands of today’s viral social network outbreaks.

The components of the solution include ASP.NET MVC framework to render a “view” using Facebook Markup Language ("FBML") , the Facebook Developer Toolkit, Windows Azure, SQL Azure and Visual Studio 2010.

ARCast.TV - Enabling Architects with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Bob Familiar — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:35:00 GMT

In this talk, Cameron Skinner, Product Unit Manager for Visual Studio Team System, and Zhiming Xue discuss the challenges architects often face and how they may benefit from using Visual Studio 2010.

ARCast.TV - An Overview of MVC4WPF - Part 3 of 3

Bob Familiar — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:48:00 GMT

Brian H. Prince meets with Stephen Giffin and John Hannah about their new open source project called MVC4WPF. It is a new framework and guidance package that helps you quickly build enterprise WPF applications. They have seen a dramatic improvement in productivity, ability to leverage entry level developers, and a massive reduction in development costs. The framework helps your developers follow the right path and do the right thing.

Part 1 in this ARCast series is here.

Part 2 in this ARCast series is here.

ARCast.TV Special - Designing Multi-tenant Applications on Windows Azure featuring Joseph Hofstader

Bob Familiar — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:26:00 GMT

Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics in information technology today. With all the confusion surrounding acronyms ending in ‘aas’ like Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) it can be intimidating for even seasoned IT professionals. This presentation will briefly discuss the different types of cloud platforms and then address one of the key business scenarios for the cloud: Software as a Service. - Joseph Hofstader

ARCast.TV - An Overview of MVC4WPF - Part 2 of 3

Bob Familiar — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:31:00 GMT

Brian H. Prince talks with Stephen Giffin and John Hannah about their new open source project called MVC4WPF. It is a new framework and guidance package that helps you quickly build enterprise WPF applications. They have seen a dramatic improvement in productivity, ability to leverage entry level developers, and a massive reduction in development costs. The framework helps your developers follow the right path and do the right thing.

Part 1 in this ARCast series is here.

ARCast.TV Special - An Architects Perspective on Silverlight 3 featuring Tim Heuer

Bob Familiar — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:24:00 GMT

Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and in particular Silverlight. In this session we will step back from a detailed implementation technology and take a higher level look at Silverlight from the architect’s perspective. We will discuss the types of applications where Silverlight makes sense and some scenarios where Silverlight may not be the appropriate technology. We will also delve into some of the architectural decisions that the architect must consider when writing applications for this platform and where some of the tradeoffs may lie. - Tim Heuer

ARCast.TV - An Overview of MVC4WPF - Part 1 of 3

Bob Familiar — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:32:00 GMT

ARCast.TV - Cloud Computing is for Small Companies Too

Bob Familiar — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:53:00 GMT

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 small- and medium-sized companies should look for opportunities in the cloud computing area.

ARCast.TV - Real World Software + Services Architecture: The Winchester Ballistics Calculator

Bob Familiar — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:52:00 GMT

You've no doubt heard by now a lot about software plus services as an architectural concept, but how many real world examples can you say you've seen? On this episode of ARCast, Denny Boynton sits down with Derek Jerrel from Winchester Ammunition and Jim McPherson and Jeff Fattic from Quilogy to discuss their innovative use of Silverlight, WPF and Surface to build a highly advanced and extremely cool ballistics calculator leveraging the power and agility of an S+S architectural model.

ARCast.TV - Rocky Lhotka on Development Frameworks

Bob Familiar — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:01:00 GMT

It is difficult to strike a balance between the optimal architecture and over architecting a solution. Joe Shirey sits down with Rocky Lhotka , the creator of the CSLA.NET framework, to discuss how he balances what should and should not be in his framework.

ARCast.TV - Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences, on Cloud Architecture Patterns

Bob Familiar — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:03:00 GMT

Want to know more about Microsoft Windows Azure and the Azure Services platform and how it relates to Microsoft’s “Software + Services” strategy and other cloud computing services such as Amazon EC2? Check out Dr. Zhiming Xue’s interview with Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences (AIS). Speaking from his understanding and experience, Vishwas articulates three typical styles of applications and services that may be built to take advantages of the Azure Services platform -- complete applications using the Azure AppFabric, composite applications that are integrated with services hosted and run in the cloud, and consumable services such as workflow for other applications and services.

ARCast.TV - Albert Pascual on how he built GeoTwitter

Bob Familiar — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:54:00 GMT

Brian H. Prince sits down with Albert Pascual at the MVP summit to talk about how he built GeoTwitter.org. We talk about how he designed his system to leverage multiple mapping engines and discuss what GeoRSS is, and why you might use it. Source is on codeplex.

ARCast.TV - The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com

Bob Familiar — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:07:00 GMT

‘Twas the week before the holiday season… in this interview, with Jeff Barnes from Microsoft, Ron Teblum, CEO of Catalog Enterprises Inc. and Raphael Parentes, lead graphic designer, discuss the launch of MyChristmasCatalog.com and their innovative use of Silverlight3 and Expression Blend and to deliver a truly unique one-stop, holiday shopping destination and experience.

Catalog Enterprises was one of the first registered Microsoft Bizspark Partners when the program launched almost a year ago - and now they are leading the race in e-Commerce 3.0 using Microsoft technologies. By leveraging all the rich media capabilities in Silverlight 3, they have brought together all the familiar sights and sounds of Christmas, including Christmas in New York, Silverlight games for the kids, the narrated Christmas story, Christmas for soldiers, and a truly unique shopping experience to help you find that perfect gift for those on your holiday list this season.

And don’t forget to check the Christmas Traditions section - they have digitized all the old catalogs from your childhood; Sears, Spiegel’s, Schwarz, and JC Penney’s using their proprietary print media conversion tool that converts them into digital flip-books. And using the Silverlight Deep-Zoom technology – you can once again see all the cool toys you didn’t get for Christmas…

ARCast.TV - Improving Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System

Bob Familiar — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:50:00 GMT

In this interview with Zhiming Xue at Microsoft, Mike Snell, VP Solution Services at CEI, Microsoft Regional Director and co-author of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed book, discusses five key issues that typically exist in the application lifecycle management (ALM) process – requirements tracking, code review, unit testing, automated testing (aka black box testing), and continuous integration. Mike speaks each of these five issues from his extensive customer experience and offers his domain expert views and recommended practices, including use of Microsoft tools and systems such as VS 2008 Team System, Team Foundation Server, MSBuild and some non-Microsoft tools such as Ravenflow and RequisitePro for advanced requirements management. If you are interested in improving the ALM process at your organization or for your team, check out this video and let us know what you think.

ARCast.TV - Mark Pollack on Architecture Refactoring

Bob Familiar — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:45:00 GMT

While there are many qualities by which to judge an architecture, two technologies--dependency injection (DI) and aspect-oriented programming (AOP)--provide guidance on some of the most foundational. Not only do they influence how a system's components are designed and organized, they also determine how easily the system may evolve. In this episode, Mark Dunn and Mark Pollack discusses DI and AOP from an architectural point of view, showing how the principles promoted by DI and AOP translate to tangible architectural benefits such as loose coupling and a separation of business and technical concerns.

ARCast.TV Special - Michael Stiefel on Software as a Service in the Cloud

Bob Familiar — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:33:00 GMT

The Architecture Innovation Cafe presents Michael Stiefel on Software as a Service in the Cloud - Architecting and building a Software as a Service application requires solving a series of problems that are independent of a particular software platform. Michael discusses three areas of focus for designing and building services so that you can leverage your work into new platforms such as Windows Azure.

ARCast.TV - CxO Level Discussion about Cloud Computing

Bob Familiar — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:53:00 GMT

What are the business considerations of risks and benefits when considering cloud computing options, strategies, and trends? Check out this discussion between Miha Kralj and Zhiming Xue.

ARCast.TV - Matt Hessinger on How Business drives Architecture

Bob Familiar — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:54:00 GMT

Enterprise Architects, Solutions Architects, Infrastructure Architects, and Business Analysts all work hand-in-hand to deliver value to the enterprise. In this interview, Joe Shirey talks to Matt Hessinger about the dynamics of each of these groups and some strategies for improving these dynamics.

ARCast.TV Special - Jim Wilt on Increasing Solution Adoption Success Using Architectural Skills

Bob Familiar — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:36:00 GMT

The Architect Innovation Cafe presents Jim Wilt on Using ArchitecturalSkills to Increase Solution Adoption Success - Products, Solution Frameworks, and Development Tools are too often touted by vendors and development teams as solutions to customer business problems. Why do development teams, customers, and users seek products to fill this gap? When solutions fail is it too easy to blame a given platform than for those really responsible to take responsibility? It more often has to do with one's level of problem solving skills, planning, and ability to align technology with business strategy.

ARCast.TV - How to Improve Testability with a Modular Architecture

Bob Familiar — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:26:00 GMT

Mario Cardinal and Aaron Kowall discuss how to easily test in an autonomous way an application conceived with modular abstractions such as the "layer". Mario and Aaron discuss how to partition the concerns of the application into layers and best practices regarding application architecture and modularity.

ARCast.TV - Re-architecting Applications for Internationalization

Bob Familiar — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:44:00 GMT

Achim Ruopp, an internationalization specialist and a former program manager at Microsoft, discusses the typical process of and efforts involved in internationalizing existing applications in this interview with Zhiming Xue. If you are interested to know how to plan and get started with the process of internationalizing applications, how applications are typically re-architected for internationalization, what tests are conducted once they are internationalized, and what tools and resources are available to facilitate application internationalization, this video is made for you.

ARCast.TV - Clemens Vasters on Architecture Implications of the Internet Service Bus

Bob Familiar — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:40:00 GMT

Companies need infrastructure to integrate services for internal enterprise systems, services running at business partners, and systems accessible on the public Internet. And companies need be able to start small and scale rapidly. Joe Shirey talks to Clemens Vasters, senior program manager on the Windows Azure team, about the architectural implications of the Internet Services Bus and .NET Services.

ARCast.TV - Using LAAAM to Make Good Architectural Decisions, Fast!

Bob Familiar — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:19:00 GMT

Bob Familiar interviews Jeromy Carriere on the Lightweight Architecture Alternative Assessment Method (LAAAM), a fast and efficient way to make good architectural decisions that are aligned with the needs of your business. Making good architectural decisions early in the software development lifecycle helps reduce project risk and ensures that precious time and energy isn't wasted delivering solutions that miss the mark. This is critical in our ever-accelerating software development world. The most unique characteristic of LAAAM is its focus on defining what quality means for a given system or product. We all want to create high-quality products, but LAAAM helps us go further in determining the aspects of quality that are important to the stakeholders for a given system. The "-ilities" are commonly used, coarsely, to talk about architectural quality; however, LAAAM won't let us simply say "my system has to be scalable" or "I need flexibility". Instead, LAAAM forces us to be: a) precise in the kinds of scalability and flexibility that are important; and b) prioritize these quality attributes so that appropriate tradeoff decisions can be made. LAAAM produces a set of artifacts that represent a rigorous, rational decision making process. These artifacts are extremely valuable in justifying and communicating architectural decisions, since it's rarely possible (or even desirable) to have every stakeholder involved in every conversation. The LAAAM artifacts give us a way to express the reasoning that went into a given decision, with a foundation in the definition of quality for a system. LAAAM has been successfully applied to make decisions large and small at Microsoft, Fidelity and VistaPrint. LAAAM draws its roots from the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method developed at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

ARCast.TV - Caleb Jenkins On Dependency Injection

Bob Familiar — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:28:00 GMT

Brian H. Prince caught up with Caleb Jenkins at the MVP summit. They commandeered a conference room, and talked about how all developers need to care about architecture. Developers should think of architecture at the code level and the benefits of Dependency Injection.

ARCast.TV - David Hill gives us an introduction to the Application Architecture Guide

Bob Familiar — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:59:00 GMT

No one will argue that the process of architecting software solutions that use available capabilities to address business needs within an organization's constraints is often a daunting task. Challenges like this can be much more approachable when you have a solid way of reasoning about all of the options using a common frame. The second edition to the wildly successful Application Architecture Guide provides just this frame. Denny Boynton interviews David Hill to get a glimpse of this architectural playbook.