Cloud Computing

W07 Building Your First Azure Application

03/28/2012

10:45 am - 12:00 pm

Level: Intermediate

Michael Stiefel

Michael Stiefel

President

Reliable Software, Inc.

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