PDC Day 1 – Lap Around Windows Azure Notes

Session #1: Windows Azure Platform: Windows Azure SQL Azure AppFabric …plus developer tools and "Dallas" Azure does "Compute" "Management" and "Storage" SQL Azure is a relational DB as a service. Demo is of a tickmaster-type application that uses Azure. TicketDirect Architecture: "Compute" using Web and Worker roles to process tickets Using the service bus to…

PDC Day 1 KeyNote Notes

Windows Azure Improvements since last year: Support PHP, CGI, Apache, other frameworks Expose very low-level programming efforts (not just .NET). Example was a C++ app with pointers exposed as an Azure service Identity framework (support passing tokens from federated locations i.e. onsite AD instance) SQL Azure Improvements since last year: Not just RESTful consumption of…