first a note: I know this is the name of my blog is cloud9 and im supposed to be talking about Azure but just like everyone has thier pronounciation of the word Azure... I have my own defintion or vision of what Azure is. Azure is the core of a software + services platform. At this point in the game you might be saying DUH.. Whatever. Well let me just whatever your whatever lol. Azure = S+S = ( Azure Cloud, ServiceBus, Identity Metasystem (ACS/WIF/ADFS20/Cardspace etc), Dublin, WCF, WF, REST, Silverlight,...

So lets say you want to test early development builds in a continuously integrated system. You want to take all your developers code and execute it on a seperate box and be able to test client access to your system remotely. Yeah you could put it up in staging on Azure but maybe you dont want to do that yet. Maybe you just want some testers bangin away at it from some remote client. Well right now thats kinda hard since the development fabric carries a restriction to deny request from non-localhost...

I recently heard a presentation from David Chappell talking about how SOA is failing in many organizations. Below is not a summary of what he talked about but my own new thoughts on a subject I am still learning much about while listening to his presentation..... I have to give it to David Chappell. He has a way of bringing together concepts in a very simple and engaging way. At a recent architecture conference ( video http://channel9.msdn.com/po...

Saas vs. S+S Saas is an architectural paradigm where a solution architecture can benefit from the economies of scale of the data and behavior of that architecture being built and hosted in the cloud by a third party in a multitenant fashion. Software + Services is an architectural paradigm where a solution architecture can achieve some of the same economies of scale as Saas while simultaneously benefiting from the synergies and efficiencies of the data and behavior of that architecture being partly...

If you deploy 10 instances of a web role. e.g. your website on 10 servers for scale and availability purposes. You wouldnt want to put all ten on one rack just in case that rack gets hosed. You'd want to follow some best practice and maybe host them across two racks. 5 on one rack in location X and 5 on another rack in location Y. If one server goes down on the rack in location Y you are good, theres 4 others still working and the Azure fabric will bring up the 5th as soon as it can. If the whole...

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The NYC Azure Cloud Computing Group meets again February 23, 2009 Microsoft, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th floor, NYC, NY 6:00 - 8:00 pm http://www.clicktoattend.co... BE SURE TO REGISTER... Space fills up fast and Building Security Requires it. This month... Chris Rolon, Architectural Consultant Neudesic LLC will be presenting on... Azure Cloud Storage When trying to build services that are highly scalable, durable and always available, the storage of data is critical. In this session...

get it here... http://www.microsoft.com/do... The Azure Services Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help you learn how to use the Azure Services Platform. The February release includes the following updates: 19 demo scripts that walkthrough several of the services 10 presentations covering the entire Azure Services Platform...

Just thought I'd summarize what I've learned so far ... a particular slide stood out for me.... Box in white around everything is the service and everything outside of it is the public internet. LB is a load balancer which takes input off the public internet and feeds it to the webrole ‘N’ = as may copies of the webrole you want all distributed behind the load balancer. This is the only way that input is coming into the system. No one in the world can hit and IP address of one of your boxes directly....

Read or watch ============ Read “What is Azure” web site http://www.microsoft.com/az... Read the white paper by David Chappell http://download.microsoft.c... Watch the PDC 2008 session “A Lap Around Windows Azure” by Manuvir Das http://channel9.msdn.com/pd... He has an alternative presentation (40 minutes) here http://channel9.msdn.com/po... Install...