Sessions 2012

ALM in the Cloud

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Application Lifecycle Management is all about the entire life cycle of your applications and how you take them from birth to death. It goes beyond the software development lifecycle and covers a wide range of activities beyond just cutting code. Building modern solutions requires that you and your organization adapt based on what’s right for you.

In the session, Brian will examine the current cloud-based tooling for ALM solutions (GitHub, Team Foundation Service, etc.) as well as platforms on which you can use to manage and host your solution (AWS, Azure, etc.).

 

Public Cloud Platforms for .NET Developers

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Public clouds platforms are rapidly growing and many businesses move partially or fully their IT infrastructure to the cloud. The big players like Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Amazon operate their own public cloud platforms while the smaller players provide cloud services and PaaS platforms and on top of the larger. What about the .NET developers and the cloud?

In this talk the speaker will introduce the public .NET clouds and will compare the leading .NET PaaS clouds: Windows Azure, AppHarbor, Uhuru and AWS Elastic Beanstalk for .NET. The .NET public clouds will be compared in terms of architecture, programming model, pricing, development stack, available services, deployment model and tools for administration and monitoring. A live demo will show how to deploy and run a typical .NET application (based on ASP.NET MVC and MS SQL Server) in AppHarbor and Uhuru.

 

Architectural Patterns For The Cloud

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Enough mushy, baby talk about the cloud. Let’s roll up our sleeves and talk about some real patterns for how to use the cloud in the real world.

 

Hint: As much as some vendors want you to think so, it doesn’t require you to move everything to the cloud. Leave with some concrete ways to use the cloud in your existing world.

 

Tags: Windows Azure Architecture Cloud

Automating Data Center Clouds with Programmable Infrastructure

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The session will cover DC and Cloud automation requirements with focus on programmable Cisco DC infrastructure and Cisco Open Network Environment, that facilitate rapid service creation. Special focus will be on Cisco Unified Computing Systems XML API. Specific use cases will be shown and  working examples of managing UCS using XML AP.

Windows Azure Tips & Tricks

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Windows Azure is a very broad cloud platform. Brian will discuss seven tips and tricks you need to know to be quickly successful. These are all hard learned from real world projects and customers.

Tags: Windows Azure Cloud Real World

Getting started with Amazon EC2

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Since its introduction in 2007, EC2 has continued to provide a reliable and scalable on-demand compute platform on which many thousands of customers run varied and complex workloads.

In this presentation Ryan Shuttleworth will cover the basics of getting started with EC2 in a series of 'how to' guides from account creation to generating your first key pair and starting your first instance. Ryan will be introducing services built on EC2 such as the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and covering topics including cost optimisation with reserved instances.

Migrating Applications to Windows Azure

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Windows Azure is the next big thing for server-side applications and one of its major use cases is hosting existing .NET applications. However, Window Azure is not your regular playground and some preparations are necessary.

 

In this session, Shay Friedman will take you through the migration path and the different ways to make sure your application is ready to move to the cloud. In addition, Shay will explain how you can estimate the cost of running your web application in the cloud.

 

Data Patterns for the Cloud

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You built applications that talk to databases before. So now there’s the cloud. Big deal you say. Well, actually yes? It turns out building a cloud-aware distributed application isn’t the same as taking your database and dropping it on some server. There are different data models, data redundancy options, and general global scale issues that don’t translate from your general in-house solution.

In this session, Brian will look at what the industry has learned and what options are available on the Windows Azure platform for data access, storage, and availability.

 

Building Powerful Web Applications with AWS

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Join Ryan Shuttleworth for this presentation where he will explain the key architectural patterns used to build applications in the AWS cloud, and how to leverage cloud fundamentals to build highly available, cost effective web-scale applications.

You will also learn how to design for elasticity and availability within AWS using a common web architecture as a reference point and discuss strategies for scaling, security, application management and global reach. If you want to know how to make your applications truly scale then join this presentation to learn more.

Reasons to attend:
* Understand the architectural properties of powerful, scalable and highly available applications in the Amazon cloud
* Learn about Amazon regions and services that operate within them that enable you to leverage cloud scaling
* Discover how to manage data with services like S3, DynamoDB and Elastic MapReduce to remove constraints from your applications as your achieve web-scale data volumes
* Hear about customer case studies and real-world examples of scaling from a handful of resources to many thousands in response to customer demand

 

Building and Consuming OData Cloud Services with LightSwitch

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The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a REST-ful protocol for exposing and consuming data on the web and has become the new standard for data-based services. Many enterprises use OData as a means to exchange data between systems, partners, as well as provide an easy access into their data stores form a variety of clients on a variety of platforms.

In this session, see how LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 has embraced OData making it easy to consume as well as create data services in the LightSwitch middle-tier. Learn how the LightSwitch development environment makes it easy to define business rules and user permissions that always run in these services no matter what client calls them. Then see how LightSwitch makes it easy to deploy these services to the Azure cloud and consume them from other client applications and platforms.

 

Building Secured, Scalable, Low-latency Web Applications with the Windows Azure Platform

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See how you can build scalable, durable, and secured web sites in Windows Azure with the help of compute, storage, CDN, ACS, AppFabric cache, and more. We always hear tips about the patterns and practices of building web applications with Windows Azure, it's time we see how it is done!

In this session we will construct a secured, durable, scalable, low-latency web application with Windows Azure - Compute, Storage, CDN, ACS, Cache, SQL Azure, Full IIS, WCF and more.

This is a no-slides presentation!