Developing And Deploying Your First Cloud Service

Steve MarxWindows AzureMicrosoft Corporation

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This talk is for developers.

It’s about making things concrete.

It’s about the present.

It’s composed of:

Demos90%

Other10%

90% all at once

demo

Overview

Developing an service

Testing and debugging locally

Deploying to the cloud

Maintaining a running service

No Surprises

Consistent, Familiar Development

Visual Studio Templates Debugging

.NET platform .NET, IIS7, WCF

“The cloud on your desktop” Complete offline cloud simulation Like Cassini (web development server)

Hello, World!

demo

So What?

Default.aspx

We Got Scalability For Free!

Scalability Availability Zero-downtime upgrades All with existing tools and skills

Default.aspxLB

Horizontal Scaling

What about state?(e.g., shopping cart)

Separating State

Durable Store

Durable Storage

Durable, scalable, available store

Simple abstractions

Simple interface REST ADO.NET Data Services

Blobs Tables

…

Queues

Hello, Storage!

demo

Simple Storage

Default.aspx

Storage(Blobs, Tables, Queues)

LB

Not Just Websites

Cloud services aren’t just websites

Many other types of work for the cloud Bulk file conversion Heavy analytics Finding extraterrestrials

Even websites can offload async work

We need a more complex architecture

Service ArchitecturesWeb role

Storage

LB Worker.cs

Service ArchitecturesWorker role

Default.aspx

Storage

LB

Service ArchitecturesWeb and worker roles

Storage

LB

Worker Role

demo

Web Role

Default.aspx

Storage(Blobs, Tables, Queues)

LB

Web And Worker Roles

Default.aspx

Storage(Blobs, Tables, Queues)

LB Worker.cs

Simple queue interface

Probably not the first one…

Oops, a bug!

Debugging

Remember, no surprises

Offline, just what you would expect Set breakpoints Step into code Inspect variables

What about in the cloud?

Logging

Debugging the cloud really means logging

Simple logging API today

More functionality over time

Debugging and Logging

demo

Publishing Your Service To The Cloud

1. Write code on your laptop2. Upload your package to the web portal3. Push “deploy”

4. Monitor, upgrade, scale…

Hello, World!(the whole world)

demo

Summary

Familiar development

Local debugging

Simple deployment

Automated management

What Next?

Go to http://azure.com

Download the SDK, write some code

Go to these talks: Storage (Brad Calder)

Tuesday at 1:45pm (502A) Best Practices (Sriram Krishnan)

Wednesday at 3pm (here) Programming Model (Daniel Wang)

Thursday at 12pm (here)

Credits

Thanks for the photos!

Developer desk:http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunkv/97119622/

Concrete, WA:http://flickr.com/photos/karynsig/771785316/

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