Screencasts from "Patterns for Cloud Computing" Presentation
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 7:49 PM
Since returning from Europe a couple of weeks ago, I've been asked if my presentations were recorded, especially for the demos shown. A number of events did record the session, and I'm sure they will be making these available soon, but in meantime I have put together screencasts for each of my five demos.
The first screencast shows a small application called PrimeSolvr, which was created by a couple of colleagues - Wade Wegner and Larry Clarkin. PrimeSolvr is a simple application that solves prime numbers, running on a 25 node instance using Windows Azure.
The second screencast focuses on multi tenancy and shows handling data and UI for multi-tenant applications using ASP.NET MVC, which could then be uploaded the cloud. The demo was inspired by Maarten Balliauw, a Microsoft MVP in Belgium who created a routing mechanism for ASP.NET that uses the domain name.
The third screencast, and demo, is a simple implementation of MapReduce running on Windows Azure. The demo is run locally to demonstrate logging in the fabric, and shows how a MapReduce-like application can run on Windows Azure.
The fourth screencast focuses on storing data in the cloud, primarily with SQL Azure. For this demo, I take the database used in the second demo, and move it from a local instance of SQL to an instance running in the cloud.
The fifth and final screencast looks at communication using the cloud, specifically using the .NET Service Bus. Instead of exchanging "hello world" type messages, I actually show how the service bus can be used to do protocol mapping between two machines - I think this demonstrates some of the more interesting applications that using the cloud can enable. In this demo I connect to an instance of SQL Server running on a remote machine using the .NET Service Bus.
My apologies about the player used for these (e.g. there is no full screen button - to get full screen, you have to double click on the video).
I'm working on a blog upgrade that will fix this, and a few other issues - hoping to get something up and running before heading across to TechEd Europe in Berlin next month.