Thiago Silva and Jeff Hewitt on Azure - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Carl and Richard talk to Thiago Silva and Jeff Hewitt about building applications in Azure. The good? Scaling, deployment and costs. More good - great tools and information from Patterns and Practices. The bad? Getting coherent monitoring together. The conversation digs deep into Azure level monitoring, web level monitoring and application level monitoring. How do you relate the data together? What measurements matter? How do you get to the point where you have a dashboard that shows you the health of your application? Finally, there is the ugly - and it's called licensing. Thiago and Jeff talk about how some license models (like per-machine licensing) just don't work in Azure. Good stuff for getting serious about Azure!
Guests:
Thiago Silva
Thiago Silva is an Architect with Credera, a Dallas-based consulting firm, delivering Microsoft solutions to clients that include several Fortune 500 companies. He has been developing enterprise applications, BI reporting, and web solutions for the last decade. Thiago is a previous .NET Rocks guest and a published co-author and contributor on the Wrox Professional SQL Server Reporting Services series of books. He lives in Dallas with his wife and 3 kids and loves music and playing guitar.
Jeff Hewitt
Jeff Hewitt is a Senior Architect with Credera. He has more than 10 years of experience in technology consulting with an emphasis in Microsoft technologies. Jeff focuses on custom .NET development and SharePoint. He lives in Dallas with his wife and five kids.
Links:
- Access on Azure http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/11/06/microsoft-access-2013-a-cool-new-rapid-development-tool-for-the-cloud.aspx
- Shut Up and Listen http://www.ted.com/talks/ernesto_sirolli_want_to_help_someone_shut_up_and_listen.html
- New Relic https://newrelic.com/
- Patterns and Practices Transient Fault Handling Block http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh680934
- Patterns and Practices Autoscaling Application Block http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh680892(v=PandP.50).aspx