1. Sriram Krishnan@sriramksriramkrishnan.com

2. ST:TNG “The Inner Light”

3. 4 things

5. <4>

6. What is Windows Azure?

7. Some history….

9. PaaS is awesome

10. Automated app, OS servicing

11. Scale-out

12. Storage options

13. Blobs, tables (NoSQL)

14. SQL Azure (relational)

15. Global scale (6 DCs, 24 CDN nodes)

17. Monitoring/Management

18. Blobs

19. Network attached block storage

20. Queues

21. Tables (NoSQL)

22. RDBMS (as a service)

23. VPN

24. CDN

25. Traffic Manager

26. Caching

27. Service Bus

28. Access Control (as a service)

30. <3>

31. Windows Azure under the covers

33. 24 CDN nodes

34. State of the art power, cooling, infrastructure.

35. Thousands of nodes with custom SKUs optimized for Windows Azure

36. Each node has 8 cores. Chopped up into 1,2, 4 and 8 cores based on S, M, L and XL VM sizes (XS VMs are a bit different).

38. Business Portal Developer Portal REST Fabric Controller User Code … … Runtime API Storage Cluster Compute Cluster … VM Setup REST MSFT Datacenters Cloud VM

39. The Windows Azure Service Model A Windows Azure application is called a “service” Definition + configuration information At least one “role” Roles are like linked-librariesin the service “process”

40. Three kinds of roles Web role IIS started automatically Worker role DLL/lib with main() Started automatically VM Role Upload your own VHD (virtual hard disk) No automated servicing

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42. <2>

43. Open source stacks

45. Most do.

46. Recent features make this easier

47. Elevated privileges – run as admin/root

48. Startup tasks – install before launch

50. PHP (official SDK + tools)

51. (runs Wordpress, SugarCRM,…)

52. Python (Django, …)

53. Ruby (RoR, Sinatra,…)

54. Node.js

55. Erlang

56. Apache/lighttpd/Tornado/nginx/Tomcat/etc…

57. Memcached

58. Cassandra

59. MongoDB

60. Redis

61. MySQL/PostgreSQL/Sqlite

63. <1>

64. Who is using it at scale?

67. Bing

68. </1>

69. One more thing...

71. Windows Azure free for 30 dayswindowsazurepass.comCode: “MEETUP”

72. That’s all folks!@sriramksriramkrishnan.com