TUTORIAL:

Practical cloud computing  on Windows Azure Platform

Piotr Bubacz, University of Zielona Góra

Sunday, September 18, 2011 (afternoon) and Monday, September 19, 2011 (after keynote presentations)

 

Introduction to cloud computing and Windows Azure Platform

• What is cloud computing?

• What is a cloud operating system?

• Key scenarios for the cloud.

• The development environment.

Roles and Instances

• What is a role?

• Purpose of each role

• Basic role configuration

• Local debugging

• Learn how to tune the environment

• Use local storage

• Use plugins

Storage in Azure

• How does Windows Azure Storage work?

• How do I access storage?

• Learn about messaging

• How queues work

• Learn how to store data in tables

• Create and destroy data

• How tables scale

• What is BLOB storage?

• How do I access it?

• What is Azure Drive?

SQLAzure

• Learn how SQL lives in the cloud

• What are the differences

• How to migrate easily

Windows Azure AppFabric

• What is the AppFabric?

• The Access Control Service

• Using the Service Bus

• Leveraging Distributed Cache

Cloud Computing Scenarios

• DIscussion of some common uses