Above The Cloud

Earlier last week I had the privilege of presenting at Remix10, a two day web conference held in Melbourne Australia. I presented in front of a packed crowd, and the topic seemed so popular that I had to deliver it again a second time the next day.

I really enjoyed the “love fest” and while I didn’t get to see much of the other presentations, the keynote was awesome, demonstrating some great integration points with Microsoft Surface, Slate, and Windows Phone 7.

My presentation topic was “Architecting for the Cloud” with a focus on how to build highly scalable applications, leveraging aspects of the Windows Azure Platform.

The presentation began with a quick overview of the platform, then followed by identifying some key aspects to highly scalable applications such as minimising state, caching mechanisms and messaging patterns.

As with my talk at the Windows Azure launch in the Philippines, I decided to take some photos of the crowd at the start. I got to speak to a lot of these individuals during the mixer drinks that evening and it sounds like the Azure platform is starting to gain momentum in Australia.

I really enjoyed the event and hope to be back next year!

Remix10 Slide Deck – Architecting For The Cloud – 1.75Mb

I was just putting together a doc for some Azure quick links that will be content handed out to delegates at the upcoming Australian Remix conference. I figured I would also post the list here. If you’re into Azure, you should know about all these destination addresses.

Windows Azure Platform – Home
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/

Windows Azure Platform – Developer Centre
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/azure/default.aspx

PDC Videos 08/09
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/pdc2008/tags/Azure/
http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions#/tags/WindowsAzurePlatform

Windows Azure Platform Training Kit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=413e88f8-5966-4a83-b309-53b7b77edf78&displaylang=en

Blogs
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlazure/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/netservices/
http://blog.smarx.com/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jnak/
http://www.davidaiken.com/
http://azure.snagy.name/blog

Other
http://www.cerebrata.com/products/cloudstoragestudio/
http://lokadcloud.codeplex.com/
http://azuresecurity.codeplex.com/
http://wag.codeplex.com/

Community Support:
http://www.codify.com/lists/ozazure
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/windowsazure/threads/

Remix10 in Australia will be on June 1st and 2nd in Melbourne. This “love fest”, as it is being advertised, will see the best of the web and of course that means Azure will play a prominent part.

The sessions have been announced and yours truly will be presenting in the first session of the conference on: Architecting For The Cloud. Here’s the outline:

All you hear nowadays is ‘cloud this’, ‘cloud that’. But what does it really take to write applications for the cloud? Are all applications even suited for the cloud? How are applications best architected for the cloud?

In this session we’ll explore these concepts as we take a scenario based focus on architectures that need to be scalable and durable, focusing on real world examples of companies already using Azure.

There will also be introductory Azure labs over both days; at this stage 4 sessions in total, so get in quick before all the seats dry up! To signup for a lab, email Kyle Price your name, job title, company, and contact phone number. Kyle’s email is: 

Hope to see you there!