Level: Intermediate
Cloud Computing is the next great technology in software development. The basic mechanics and technologies of a Microsoft Azure application will be illustrated by means of a working cloud application. These mechanics include:
- how to use Visual Studio 2010 to create and test an application
- how to make simple uses of roles, queues and tables
- how to configure your application
- how to install and deploy it
- how to monitor your application in the cloud
- how to estimate the cost of running in the cloud
- how to scale your app
- how to manage the life cycle of a cloud app
- The basic technologies include:
- Blobs
- Tables
- Queues
- Worker and Web roles
- SQL Azure
- Diagnostics API
- Management API
- Using the Azure Development Portal
You will learn:
- Understand and know how to use the key technologies and techniques associated with Microsoft Azure
- Understand the basic tradeoffs of building scalable cloud applications with Azure
- Understand how building a cloud application is different from building a desktop or hosted application