Heat up your skills with the all-new FireStarter event series. Each day tackles a single Microsoft technology, including free sessions presented live by Microsoft developer and IT pro evangelists and technology specialists – with special appearances from Microsoft luminaries.
Cloudy with a chance of Awesomeness!
The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft, we’re flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of “wow” – and based on your feedback, we’ve organized this Windows Azure Firestarter event to help you take full advantage of the cloud.
This daylong event will focus on helping developers get ‘cloud ready.’ We’ll start by revealing Microsoft’s strategic vision for the cloud, and then offer an end-to-end view of the Windows Azure platform from a developer’s perspective. We’ll also talk about migrating your data and existing applications (regardless of platform) onto the cloud. We’ll finish up with an open panel and lots of time to ask questions.
Agenda:
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Speaker |
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8:45 – 9:00 |
Event Kick off |
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9:00 – 9:30 |
Windows Azure Vision |
Opening Keynote |
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9:30 – 10:30 |
Platform Overview for Developers |
Technical Strategist Steve Marx will walk you through the key technologies of the Windows Azure platform. From Blob Storage to “Dallas” – Steve will give you the complete run down of everything Azure! |
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10:30 – 10:45 |
Break |
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10:45 – 12:00
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Data in the cloud |
Cloud gives you more than just access to a database. There are new data stores such as blob storage. New concepts to understand such as data partitioning and scale out. This session will discuss everything from table storage to SQL Azure, what you can do with them and why would you use them. |
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12:00 – 1:00
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Lunch Cloud Cover Live |
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1:00 – 2:30 |
Building Applications for the cloud |
How do you build for scale out, handle failures & capacity planning? How do you build applications that use .Net, PHP or Java for Azure? This session walks you through how to build a new application that designed for the cloud regardless of the platform. |
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2:30 – 2:45 |
Break |
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2:45 – 4:15 |
Migrating Applications to the cloud |
Mark Kottke |
Many customers today are moving applications and services into the cloud. This session walks you through how you can successfully migrate existing applications to Windows Azure. What are the tips, tricks, gotchas and best practices? |
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4:15 – 5:00
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Panel and Close |
Open discussion to both speakers and lead engineers from the product teams. |
Audience:
Professional Developer/Programmer
Date/Time:
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 8:30 AM Pacific Time
Registration:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032441229&Culture=en-US
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