Above The Cloud

I’m not asking out of my own self interest, I’m simply forwarding a question from David Aiken.

The Azure offering is very large; there is lots to consider. Live Services is huge just on its own, and the possibilities are endless, especially if you start thinking about Virtual Earth and Mesh integration. But once you understand the capability of Azure, its your own ideas and inventions that will unleash the true power. I don’t think it is the tools team responsibility to provide the ideas. No doubt there is capability there that we don’t know about, perhaps that could be a focus?

I’ve been pondering the question but nothing jumps to mind! I was thinking a little bit about extensibility. For example, how would you go about creating your own role? I think this would be quite easy though if you were happy just working from the existing role templates (web and worker). Or perhaps a breakdown of the different command line tools that come in the SDK, and examples of automating your development fabric deployment?

If you you’d like to see something specific in the Azure Services Training Kit, why not hit up David on his blog and ask him?

The February update was just released. There’s a full write up of it on David Aiken’s blog so I won’t just repeat those same details. However it is worth noting that this version has videos, and labs for using Live Services.

I still have the original kit on my machine which was about 50Mb but the new one is 150Mb ! I’m guessing its all those videos.

If you are starting with Azure, the training kit is the best resource available, and David’s blog is pretty good too.