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Platform Choices on Windows Azure (Its not just ASP.NET and SQL Server) Mark Rendle Cloud Computing guy Software Development consultant Windows Azure Development MVP Language geek Open source developer mark@markrendle.net

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Platform Choices on Windows Azure

(It’s not just ASP.NET and SQL Server)

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Mark Rendle

  • Cloud Computing guy
  • Software Development consultant
  • Windows Azure Development MVP
  • Language geek
  • Open source developer

mark@markrendle.net – blog.markrendle.net – twitter.com/markrendle

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Web Worker Blobs Tables Queues SQL Azure Reporting Services Service Bus Caching ACS Storage Compute SQL Services

Windows Azure

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Worker Roles Web Roles Windows Server 2008 R2 IIS 7.5 For running applications Windows Server 2008 R2 No IIS For running anything

Windows Azure

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Worker Roles Web Roles Windows Server 2008 R2 IIS 7.5 For running applications Windows Server 2008 R2 No IIS For running anything*

Windows Azure

*Well, almost anything

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Windows Azure Platform Services

  • Storage:

– Blobs, Tables & Queues – CDN – SQL Azure and Reporting Services

  • AppFabric Services:

– Service Bus (relay, pub/sub, queues) – Caching – Access Control Service

  • Media Services (coming soon)

– Streaming, transcoding, etc.

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www.windowsazure.com/develop

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.NET

  • Visual Studio 2010

integration

  • Windows Azure SDK

Node.js

  • PowerShell commands
  • Windows Azure SDK for

Node.js

Java

  • Eclipse integration
  • Windows Azure SDK for

Java

PHP

  • Command line tools
  • phpazure.codeplex.com

Ruby

  • No official support
  • waz-storage gem

Python

  • No official support
  • winazurestorage.py
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Node.js SDK

Demo

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Cloud9 IDE integration

For non-Windows people

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Third-party applications

  • You can run anything on Azure
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Third-party applications

  • You can run anything on Azure as long as:

– It can run load-balanced – It has a “silent” installer – You control its disk access

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Why load-balanced?

  • Must have two instances of each role

to get 99.95% SLA

  • Roles will be recycled for patches,

upgrades etc.

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Why the “silent” installer?

  • Installation has to be run automatically

as part of role startup

  • Can’t RDP in to install software as it

won’t be there after a recycle

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What about disk access?

  • Persistent disk storage available via

CloudDrive.

  • CloudDrive API tells you the drive letter,

not the other way around

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CloudDrive

  • Simulated NTFS volume
  • Persisted to a VHD stored in a Paged Blob
  • Beware of Blob Service charges!

– $0.01 per 10,000 requests = $1 per 1m disk writes

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RavenDB on Azure

Demo

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Things I run on Azure

  • ASP.NET MVC 4 + ASP.NET WebApi
  • Nancy & Simple.Data (.NET)
  • Node.js + Express
  • RavenDB

– github.com/markrendle/AzureRavenDB

  • MongoDB

– www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/MongoDB+on+Azure

  • JRuby/Sinatra
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Q&A

mark@markrendle.net – blog.markrendle.net – twitter.com/markrendle