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Innovation Group Event: Cocktails & Clouds

Innovation Group Event: Cocktails & Clouds. 10 th November 2011. Update and Welcome. Third Innovation Group Event Shared Success Nokia Coverage of Top Apps 20 Plus Top Apps in the Pipeline New Faces SoMo , Red Badger, iPrinciples , Metia, iPrincipals and iLInk Developer Devices

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Innovation Group Event: Cocktails & Clouds

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  1. Innovation Group Event: Cocktails & Clouds 10th November 2011

  2. Update and Welcome • Third Innovation Group Event • Shared Success • Nokia Coverage of Top Apps • 20 Plus Top Apps in the Pipeline • New Faces • SoMo, Red Badger, iPrinciples, Metia, iPrincipalsand iLInk • Developer Devices • Next Event: 19th Jan 2012 • Metro Design and UX Deep Dive • Lbi Rave 24th November Tickets available

  3. Agenda Azure Workshop Depth Partner Support • 3:00pm – 3:15pm: Update & Welcome, Steven Trew, Microsoft • 3:15pm – 4:00pm: Azure Workshop, Eric Nelson, Microsoft & David Wynne, Red Badger   • 4:00pm – 4:15pm: Break • 4:15pm – 4:45pm: Windows Phone Depth Partner Support Tom Eddings, Microsoft • 4:45pm – 5:00pm: Student Internship Program • Lars Lindstedt, Microsoft • 5:00pm- 7:00pm: Cocktail Making Master Class Internship Program Q & A Cocktail Workshop Food & Networking

  4. Azure WorkshopEric Nelson, MicrosoftDavid Wynne, Red Badger

  5. Agenda • What is the Windows Azure Platform? • Using with Windows Phone 7 • Storage • Identity • Communications • Real World Example • Next Steps

  6. Windows Azure Platform

  7. Windows Azure Platform… makes it easy and cost effectiveto runyour applications and/or storeyour data inside Microsoft Data Centres usingexisting skills and integrate with your existing on-premise applications all accessible from a variety of devices

  8. Windows Azure Cloud Operating System Virtual Network Storage Compute

  9. SQL Azure Extending SQL Server to the Cloud Reporting Database Data Sync

  10. Windows Azure AppFabric Building Block Services for developing connected applications Access Control Service Bus Caching

  11. With Worldwide Reach… • Asia Pacific Region • North American Region • Europe Region Northern Europe North Central USA Eastern Asia Western Europe South Central USA Southeast Asia • Data Centers Across 3 Continents • 24 Global Locations for CDN Services that Scale Automatically

  12. Devices and Windows Azure

  13. Why Device + Cloud? • The cloud levels the playing field • The cloud provides a larger pool of resources from which to pull • The cloud provides a way to reach across device platforms

  14. Windows Azure Toolkits for Devices • Easier for device developers to use Windows Azure • Windows Phone: http://bit.ly/watwp7 • iOS:http://bit.ly/watios • Android: http://bit.ly/watandroid • Toolkits include: • Native libraries (e.g. .NET, Objective-C) • Samples • Project templates • Documentation

  15. Storage

  16. Storage: What are our options? • Windows Azure Tables • Non-relational structured storage • Massive scale-out • OData • Windows Azure Blobs • Big files • REST • Windows Azure Queues • Persistent Async Messaging • Enqueue, Dequeue

  17. Storage: What are our options? • SQL Azure • Relational database • Highly available • Managed for you as a service

  18. Storage Example: SQL Azure • Client sends request to proxy • Proxy makes SQL call against SQL Azure • SQL Azure returns a response • Proxy returns response to device (2) Web Role (3) (4) (1)

  19. Identity

  20. Identity: What are the options? • Create your own • Username + password, token, etc. • ASP.NET Membership Providers • Use a single existing identity system • Live Id, Facebook, etc. • Develop directly against IdP protocol • Outsource identity management • Access Control Service

  21. Access Control Service

  22. Communications

  23. Communications • Two forms of communication with devices • Device-initiated • Cloud-initiated

  24. Communications: Cloud-initiated • Push Notifications • Single connection between the device and the notification service • Bandwidth and battery-friendly • No guarantee of delivery

  25. Real World Example

  26. David Wynne Co-Founder & Architect @dwynne

  27. +

  28. #1 Premium Twitter Client Source: Distomo Monitor, November 2011

  29. Why Azure? • Visual Studio • Scale with growth • Write once • Azure Table Service • Millions of transactions a month

  30. Architecture REST API Configuration Consumer Configuration Queue Azure Table Service Monitoring Service Messages Queue Tile Service MSPN Message Consumer

  31. Insights • Design to Scale • Logical Roles vs. Physical Roles • Logging • Concurrency

  32. red-badger.com david.wynne@red-badger.com @dwynne

  33. Next Steps All links at www.ericnelson.co.uk www.azure.comwww.buildwindows.comwww.sixweeksofazure.co.uk

  34. Break

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