If you're an open source developer, Azure is a great platform to deploy your applications on. For personal or professional use, Azure comes with a full range of services that allow you to develop, scale and grow your application when you need it, how you need it.

1. Azure and OSS,
a match made in heaven
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2. Michelangelo van Dam
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4. What is “open source”?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adamculp/15858942373

5. Open source in a nutshell
• A project started out to solve a “common” problem
• Shared publicly for “others” to join in
• Add features, fix bugs or write documentation
• Free to use by others
• For private purposes (blog, website, book collection)
• For business purposes (CRM, ERP, CMS, website)

6. Open source is flexible
• Many developers found on the market (job positions)
• Many contributors to the project (continuation)
• Support by big companies (e.g. Microsoft)

7. Open source is a mindset, fueled by passion
and dedication to share great ideas.
— Michelangelo van Dam

8. Example: WordPress
• Best known blog software
• WordPress is good for 25.8% of all websites*
• Started in 2001, released in 2003
• Over 10,000 commits by 34 contributors**
• Over 40.000 plugins
(*) source: W3Techs.com
(**) source: GitHub

9. What is Microsoft Azure?

10. Microsoft Azure in a nutshell
• A cloud solution by Microsoft to solve a “common” problem
• Easy to get started with
• Host a website, manage an API, process video or data
• Comes with a series of services
• For private purposes (blog, website, book collection)
• For business purposes (CRM, ERP, CMS, API, Mobile, IoT)

11. Microsoft Azure is flexible
• Runs your apps as PaaS, SaaS or Iaas
• Scales up when demand requires more power
• Scales down when demand is no longer required
• Support by big company -> Microsoft

12. Microsoft Azure is the cloud provider every
developer dreams of.
— Michelangelo van Dam

13. Microsoft Azure in numbers
• Announced in October 2008
• Released on 1 February 2010 as Windows Azure
• Renamed to Microsoft Azure on 25 March 2014
• Lists over 250 services
• Operational in 24 regions

14. The road to infinity

15. Marketplace applications
• Blog, Photo galleria, e-commerce web shop
• CRM, ERP, CMS
• Educational platform
• Web Analytics
• Documentation wiki
• …

16. Open Source

17. Virtual Machines
• Linux flavored virtual machine
• Provides full flexibility to
• Run arbitrary services
• Run specific applications
• Scales up or down with increased/decreased requirements

18. Again
Open Source

19. Big data on steroids
• Scalable Hadoop clusters
• For high performant data processing and analysis
• With additional reporting and representation tools

20. Yup, also
Open Source

21. Powerful search engines
• Index your data efficiently
• Make it searchable using
• Keyword matching
• Full text search
• Range searches
• Spatial searches

22. What can I say?
Open Source

23. Case
existing project
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pricey/8180203583

24. Minimal requirements
Computing power Database

25. Some time later…
Search capabilities Storage capacity

26. Some more time later…
HDInsights - Big Data DocumentDB

27. Microsoft Azure
• Gives you the option to start small
• Grows with your increased demands
• Offers you platforms for even higher requirements

28. Demo Application
Set up custom app

29. Gathering requirements
Web App
Marketplace
Mail Service
Azure SearchMySQL DB

31. Case
a new project
https://www.flickr.com/photos/paulidin/4212293382

32. Marketplace

33. Automatically configured

34. Demo Application
Install WordPress in just a few steps

36. Real challenges
https://www.flickr.com/photos/muleonor/5115248509/

37. Performance issues?
• Azure can help
• To scale horizontally adding more instances when required
• To scale vertical allowing you to segment your data
• To improve caching and data retrieval (Redis and CDN)

38. Great ideas, no budget
• Azure can help
• Start off with the FREE tiers
• Build your minimal critical mass
• Generate revenue or get investments
• Scale as you grow adding better, paid services

39. Overview of open source
solutions in Microsoft Azure

40. Web Apps
OS Technology support OS deployment tools

41. Web Apps Gallery

42. Virtual Machines
OS Operating Systems OS Provisioning

43. Storage
OS Caching OS Databases

44. HDInsights - Big Data
OS Big Data tools

45. Azure Search
Based on
Azure SQL
Storage Tables
DocumentDB
Azure Integrated Trough Azure Search REST API

46. Microsoft Azure
pen Sourcepen Source

47. Global recap
• Azure is a great platform for available and internally developed
open source applications.
• Now businesses have a quick-time-to-market rolling out
applications to the cloud.
• Offers a wide variety of ready-to-use open source applications
through the Azure MarketPlace.
• Is easy to setup a continuous delivery procedure for your
developers to ensure your app runs the latest version.

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