Microsoft Student Partner presentation about developing on Windows Azure.

1. Microsoft Student PartnerAzure Development 101 Dominic Green

2. About Me ...

8. Now for the techy stuff...

9. Windows Azure

10. Windows Azure Simplicity KISS – Keep it Simple ... Avoid unnecessary complexity

11. Windows Azure Starbucks Model Order taken by one person Added to a order queue Coffee made by someone else Allows each worker to specialise

12. Windows Azure Loosely Coupled Cashier doesn’t need to know how to make the coffee Message based communication Increases scalability

13. Windows Azure Message Serialization Cashier writes the order on a cup or ticket Allows complex information passed via queue Passing objects to the queue Serialize – Send – De-Serialize

14. Windows Azure Logging and Tracing If the order goes wrong we should identify where so it doesn't happen to the next customer. Write all activities out to logs Cannot attach a debugger to the cloud Identify cause and location of any problems

15. Windows Azure Trace Manager Trace In / Out of methods Trace Extension method for any object Trace Message Trace Exception Enable tracing from configuration

16. Windows Azure Move away from config files app.config and web.config files can no longer be altered normally. Part of the deployed package Use .cscfg and .csdef files Worker Role app.config

17. Windows Azure Identifying Messages Globally Unique Identifier Very low probability of being replicated Trace message in the cloud

18. Windows Azure Adapt to load If too many orders come in everyone should focus on making coffee. Focus on critical operations Turn features of the site off to ease load Once dealt with the spike resume normal service

19. Windows Azure Idempotencey We don’t want to make the same order twice, its bad for business. Multiple operations should always give the same result

20. Windows Azure Local Storage Local storage can be used as a cache Don’t store critical data Use Azure storage to persist data Plan for the worst

21. Windows Azure Development Fabric Can debug applications locally using the development fabric Included in the Azure SDK Acts as a local cloud

22. Windows Azure Development Storage Local version of storage Remember to generate your tables Acts slightly different that real storage Use cloud storage as much as possible

23. Windows Azure Table Storage Need to generate tables locally Ensure Dev Storage is pointing to the correct table Difference online

24. Windows Azure Production and Staging

25. Windows Azure Software + Services Client applications can use the power of the cloud Add the endpoints to app.config Rich user experience Extend current applications

26. Windows Azure Tools Cloud Drive Included in the Windows Azure SDK Samples Windows Storage Explorer http://azurestorageexplorer.codeplex.com/

27. Windows Azure Resources Windows Azure http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/ Steve Marx http://blogs.smarx.com Sriram Krishnan http://sriramkrishnan.com Cloudy in Seattle http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/

28. @domgreen dominic.green@microsoft.com http://blogs.msdn.com/domgreen Dominic Green