Tag Archives: Application Development

To Cloud or Not to Cloud Part 3–Beating the Showstoppers

Posted on February 23, 2013 by CloudyInNashville

At a recent meeting of the NYC/NJ Windows Azure Users Group I presented on the subject of Moving Applications to Windows Azure.  At the end of the presentation I had a slide that covered potential Showstoppers that might prevent moving … Continue reading →

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Introducing the New Windows Azure at the Hartford Code Camp

Posted on June 24, 2012 by CloudyInNashville

On Saturday June 23rd I presented an updated version of my Windows Azure 2.0 Platform Overview at the Hartford Code Camp.  Since there were quite a few major Windows Azure announcements on June 7th this was a major update of … Continue reading →

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Windows Azure 2.0 – IaaS and two flavors of PaaS

Posted on June 13, 2012 by CloudyInNashville

Last week Microsoft announced what can arguably be called Windows Azure 2.0  (Although Microsoft has refrained from using that term. )  This diagram from the MSDN Library summarizes the new structure of Windows Azure (for a larger view and more … Continue reading →

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I am Presenting Patterns for Cloud Computing at Cloud Expo June 11-14 in New York

Posted on June 9, 2012 by CloudyInNashville

I was not originally scheduled to present my Patterns for Cloud Computing talk at Cloud Expo again this year (having done it for the last two years) but they had a last-minute cancellation and asked me to do it again. … Continue reading →

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Software as a Service Development Life Cycle and the Cloud

Posted on June 2, 2012 by CloudyInNashville

Last October I co-authored a white paper on the subject of the Software as a Service Development Life Cycle (SaaS DLC).  It was published at InfoQ.com. InfoQ (Information Queue) is: “an independent online community focused on change and innovation in … Continue reading →

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Cloud Design Patterns

Posted on May 18, 2012 by CloudyInNashville

Rightscale is a company that sells auto scaling software for multiple clouds, primarily Amazon Web Services.  They do not support Windows Azure as of yet. See below for an update on this. However, on their web site they have a … Continue reading →

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