Twin Cities Code Camp

If Cloud computing is "the next big thing" in web development what do we, the developer, need to do to prepare to write applications that will run on the Windows Azure platform? In this session we will take a look at what Windows Azure is and how developing applications for deployment in the cloud differs from writing applications that are hosted onsite. We will look at the Development Fabric which simulates the Windows Azure fabric on your local computer so that you can run and test your service locally before deploying it to the cloud. We will also take a look at the Windows Azure storage options including queues, tables, blobs, and SQL Azure. Finally we'll use the dev fabric to write a simple application that may be deployed to the cloud.