Programming Microsoft Azure

Programming Azure
Better,
Best Practices & DevOps
Subhasish Ghosh
Director, CloudCover.In
@nerdometer
Programming Azure Better, Best Practices & DevOps
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Dec 8-12 2014

Microsoft,
Hyderabad
subhasishghosh2013@hotmail.com
Contact
e: subhasishghosh2013@hotmail.com, sghosh.oxon@yahoo.co.uk
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sghosh2011
Skype: pink_floyd2008

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Objective of the Workshop:

Learn how to leverage Microsoft Azure features coupled with best
practices in VS2013 for architecting and developing highly-scalable
n-tier Web Applications
10:00am 12:00pm Session 2 hrs

12:00pm 12:30pm Lunch Break
12:30pm 2:30pm Session 2 hrs

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Day1
Day2
Introduction
WPI & WebMatrix3

- Demo
MyFixIt Application
- Demo
One ASP.NET &

Microsoft Open
Technologies
Cloud
Development
Best Practices
Day3
Data Storage
Options
VM, Cloud Services

& Web Sites
Analysis
Why No-SQL?
Web Sites &

AutoScale Demo
Data Partitioning
Strategies
async in .NET 4.5
Blob Storage
VM Depot & Katana

walkthrough Demos
Code Review & 3

Best Practices
Code Review in
VS2013
Lab 1
Azure AD & SSO
Demos
Azure
Management
portal walkthrough
Lab 2
Lab 3

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Day4
Day5
Designing for
Withstanding Failure
Lab 6
DevOps: Source
Control
Lab 7
PowerShell Cmdlets
- Demos
Using Queues on
Azure
Lab 8 & Lab 9
Code Examples
ASSESSMENT
Caching on Azure
Using Managed
Cache Service
Lab 4
Using Azure Redis

Cache
Lab 5
Laboratories 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
1. SETUP: Install Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET (vs2013) - 2.5, Install Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web with Microsoft Azure SDK
2.5, Microsoft Azure PowerShell, Open Microsoft Azure Subscription TRIAL 30-day account. Create a VM, stop & stop-deallocate using
Azure PowerShell
2. SECURITY: Creating an ASP.NET MVC application and then adding Single Sign-On (SSO) to your application using Azure Active
Directory (AAD)
3. CLOUD SERVICES: Creating a Cloud Services (Web & Worker Roles) application. Publishing to Microsoft Azure associated with a
Microsoft Azure Storage Account; Configure Auto-scaling
4. AZURE MANAGED CACHE SERVICE: Creating a Cache for Azure Managed Cache Service using Azure PowerShell cmdlets.
Connecting to this MCS from a client application.
5. AZURE REDIS CACHE: Creating and configuring Azure Redis Cache, configuring cache clients, adding and removing objects from
the cache, and storing ASP.NET session state in the cache.
6. MONITORING CODE: Creating a New Relic account, integrating it with an Azure Web Sites application and then publishing to Azure;
and checking out the tool
7. SOURCE CONTROL: Using Git in VS2013, Exploring features (branches, merging, comments etc.)
8. DEVOPS AUTOMATION: Using Microsoft Azure PowerShell installation, cmdlets, Azure Subscription details and Runbooks
Introduction
9. STAGED PUBLISHING: Staged Publishing feature of Azure Web Sites along with GitHub Integration
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2 Take Home Challenges!

End of Day 1 & Day 3

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Assessment
End of Day 5
20 Multiple Choice Questions, 40 Minutes
- Each Correct answer = 5 points
- Each Incorrect answer = 0
- Maximum Score = 20 * 5 = 100/100
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DAY #1
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Demo #1
Web Platform Installer (Web PI) &
WebMatrix3

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Demo #2
VS2013 Latest
Features

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Demo #3
MyFixIt Application

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Current Trends
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We are gonna talk about

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Microsoft Open Technologies
http://msopentech.com/

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https://vmdepot.msopentech.com/

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Demo #4
Tinkering around with VM Depot

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http://katanaproject.codeplex.co
m/
Microsoft via Katana is building a set of components around hosting
abstraction for your applications. That hosting abstraction is 'OWIN'.
OWIN is a specification. Not a code // library // framework.

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Katana Architecture
http://msopentech.com
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Demo #5
Tinkering around with Katana Project

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Quick Demo
Blank Application
PM> Install-Package
Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb
PM> Install-Package
Microsoft.Owin.Diagnostics
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Inside the OWIN Startup class, enter:

app.UseWelcomePage();
Press F5
Runs OWIN app using
System.Web
(IIS/ASP.NET)

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Project Katana
DEMO:
. How to run same program using OWIN default
server, HttpListener?
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HINT: Tinker with

Microsoft.Owin.Host.HttpListener

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Lab #1
WPI 5.0, Install Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET (vs2013) - 2.5
Install Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web with Microsoft Azure SDK
2.5
Microsoft Azure PowerShell, Open Microsoft Azure Subscription TRIAL 30day account
Create a VM, stop & stop-deallocate using PowerShell
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Azure Portal
Walkthrough
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Take Home Challenge!

Enabling Trace Warning on Cloud using VS2013

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DAY #2
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Day1
Day2
Introduction
WPI & WebMatrix3

- Demo
MyFixIt Application
- Demo
One ASP.NET &

Microsoft Open
Technologies
Cloud
Development
Best Practices
Day3
Data Storage
Options
VM, Cloud Services

& Web Sites
Analysis
Why No-SQL?
Web Sites &

AutoScale Demo
Data Partitioning
Strategies
async in .NET 4.5
Blob Storage
VM Depot & Katana

walkthrough Demos
Code Review & 3

Best Practices
Code Review in
VS2013
Lab 1
Azure AD & SSO
Demos
Azure
Management
portal walkthrough
Lab 2
Lab 3

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Day4
Day5
Designing for
Lab 6
DevOps: Source
Control
Lab 7
PowerShell Cmdlets
& Docker - Demos
Using Queues on
Azure
Lab 8 & Lab 9
Code Examples
ASSESSMENT
Caching on Azure
Using Managed
Cache Service
Lab 4
Using Azure Redis

Cache
Lab 5
Take Home Challenge! Solution

Enabling Trace Warning on Cloud using VS2013

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Cloud Development Best

Practices
Stateless WebScale-Out Web Tier

No Session State;
Use CDN for
Based on
Tier Behind an
Use Cache
Static Objects/Files
Actual Demand
astic Load Balancer

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Microsoft Azure
Compute
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Azure Cloud Services

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Workloads for Cloud Services
VM is explicitly IaaS, Cloud Services is explicitly PaaS, Web Sites is explicitly

hosting.
Cloud Services gives you administrative access to your application's VMs.

Web Sites do not provide this. This lets you install arbitrary software that
your application needs, something that's not possible with Web Sites.
N-tier stateless applications is perfect for Cloud Services. Offers both web
roles and worker roles (requirement for separate VMs for their business
logic).
Cloud Services provides separate staging and production environments,

making application updates somewhat smoother than Web Sites.
Cloud Services lets you use networking technologies such as Azure Virtual
Network and Azure Connect to hook on-premises computers to Cloud
Services applications. No such thing on Web Sites.
Cloud Services lets you use Remote Desktop to connect directly to an

application's VMs. No such thing on Web Sites.

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Microsoft Azure Service Model

Example cloud service configuration with a single web role and a
single worker role

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Mixing Virtual Machines &

Stateless Roles
Multiple cloud services with stateless and virtual machines

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Demo #6
Creating Cloud Service, creating a VM and attaching VM inside a Cloud
Service.

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VIPs in Cloud Services

- Public IP address
pointing to Azure
Cloud Service where
VM is deployed.
- Every Cloud Service
has a VIP and every
Cloud Service can
have several VMs.
- A VIP assigned to
Cloud Service wont
be released until last
VM on that Cloud
Service is Stopped
(De-allocated) or
Deleted
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Connecting Cloud Services via

VIPs

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Connecting Cloud Services via

VNET

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Azure Web Sites

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PaaS

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Demo #7
Azure Web Sites

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Under the Hood

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Under the Hood

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Load Balancing at Layer 7

Smart
Routes Traffic to Distinct Fault Domains

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Demo #8
Auto-Scaling Options in Azure

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async Support in .NET 4.5
Anyone using async

in
.NET 4.5 today?
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async Support in .NET 4.5

- async language support to build non-blocking,
asynchronous, server-side applications
- ASP.NET MVC, Web API and WebForms have built-in
async language keyword support as of .NET 4.5

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What happens in async?
1. An event handler calls and awaits

the AccessTheWebAsync async
method.
2. AccessTheWebAsync calls the
GetStringAsync asynchronous
method to download the contents of
a website as a string.
3. Something happens; to avoid
blocking resources, GetStringAsync
yields control to its caller,
AccessTheWebAsync.
4. DoIndependentWork is a
synchronous method that does its
work and returns to its caller.

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5. AccessTheWebAsync uses an
await operator to suspend its
progress and to yield control to the
method that called

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Properties
- async code is NOT multi-threaded code
- by default, code written within async & await are
single-threaded.
- async & await lets us run methods
asynchronously & not code multi-threaded manner

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3 Best Practices for async

- async void only for top-level event
handlers
- The threadpool is for CPU-bound code,
not IO-bound code
- Your methods cannot lie
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Best Practice #1
Use Case 1

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Code in the application

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Control Flow

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Which await returns

earlier?
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Convert the async

void to Task
returning method
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Best Practice #2
Use Case 2

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Code in the application

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Control Flow

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Replace for with Parallel.For

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Things should
become Faster?
Right?
Poll:
Yes | No

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What happens

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On my laptop, it is 2
cores.
So 2 threads are
allocated for the
job.

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Response time 300

Ms is better than 500
Ms.
Right?
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WRONG!
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What actually
happens
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Is it CPU-bound OR
IO-bound that is
faster?
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Parallel.For keeps on allocating new threads. Start1 and Start2 are waiting,
so Start3 and Start4 are spawned. But the issue is
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Threadpool is
Application-Global
resource.
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This is how it should be

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Do not use CPUbound. Use async for

IO-bound.
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Best Practice #3
Use Case 3

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Your methods cannot lie

- A synchronous method should execute
synchronously
- An asynchronous method should execute
asynchronously
- Do not expose asynchronous
wrappers around synchronous
methods
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2 methods

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3 types of methods

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Cloud Identity | Synchronized |

ADFS

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PaaS
Azure Active Directory (AAD)

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Classic Use Case

There are two apps on the web and the user has a plain-old browser.
Since the two apps never talk to each other directly, a mechanism would
need to be devices where the user logs onto App A, receives and access
token into their browser and passes it through to App B with then calls
back to App A via some API to make sure the access token is valid.
If we passed the access token into the users browser so its possible it
could be snatched (perhaps by some malicious javascript). This is why
most developers stick to the standard SSO protocols like SAML, OpenID
and WS-Federation for the classic web-app to web-app single sign-on.

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Demo #9
Active Directory Options in Azure

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Lab #2
Creating an ASP.NET MVC application that utilizes SSO with Azure AD

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4 steps:
. Creating an AD user using Microsoft Azure
Management portal
. Creating an ASP.NET MVC application using VS2013
. Ensuring AD user has Global Rights and correctly set
permissions for logging-in using Azure AD
. Connecting the application to Azure AD
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Ensure new user has Global_Admin rights

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Open VS2013 as admin New Project Visual C# ASP.NET Web Application, call it ExpenseReports.

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Now go back to Azure

Management portal, open the
AD we created earlier and then
go to Applications tab. You will
find ExpenseReports added
there.
Inside ExpenseReports go to Users and then select Iam (i.e. test@ContosoEngineeringHyd.onmicrosoft.com) and ASSIGNED
= YES.

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Now go back to VS2013 and build the application. Then press F5. This will open up the application and redirect to the sign-in
page.

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DAY #3
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Day1
Day2
Introduction
WPI & WebMatrix3

- Demo
MyFixIt Application
- Demo
One ASP.NET &

Microsoft Open
Technologies
Cloud
Development
Best Practices
Day3
Data Storage
Options
VM, Cloud Services

& Web Sites
Analysis
Why No-SQL?
Web Sites &

AutoScale Demo
Data Partitioning
Strategies
async in .NET 4.5
Blob Storage
VM Depot & Katana

walkthrough Demos
Code Review & 3

Best Practices
Code Review in
VS2013
Lab 1
Azure AD & SSO
Demos
Azure
Management
portal walkthrough
Lab 2
Lab 3

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Day4
Day5
Designing for
Lab 6
DevOps: Source
Control
Lab 7
PowerShell Cmdlets
& Docker - Demos
Using Queues on
Azure
Lab 8 & Lab 9
Code Examples
ASSESSMENT
Caching on Azure
Using Managed
Cache Service
Lab 4
Using Azure Redis

Cache
Lab 5
Recap
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Data Storage Options

Case Study:
Organization based in Mumbai. Has developed HRMS
application using .NET on Azure. Scaled faster than
expected. Have issues with storing data, processing
data, reporting and also scaling app.
MISSING
SQL DB (PAAS)SQL VM (IAAS)

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SQL vs.
NoSQL
Balancing
Priorities

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Best Practices

1
No "one-size fits all"
2As applications scale,

consider
NoSQL along with SQL
3Single App with

Multiple Data
Storage Options

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Questions to Ask

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Azure SQL Db Vs. SQL Server

in VM

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Why No-SQL?
- Huge Data Sets
- Denormalized Data Sets
- Need fast access to
unstructured data
- Example use cases:
- Social Media, Analytics,
Security, and Compliance
- Analyse and search data of all
types, such as text, images,
videos, music.
- High-performance core data
processing and analytics.

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Brief Intro Mongo DB

- Mongo DB stores data in the form of documents, which are
JSON-like field and value pairs.
- Documents are analogous to structures in programming
languages that associate keys with values (e.g. dictionaries,
hashes, maps, and associative arrays).
- Formally, Mongo DB documents are BSON documents. BSON is a
binary representation of JSON with additional type information.
In the documents, the value of a field can be any of the BSON
data types, including other documents, arrays, and arrays of
documents.

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Brief Intro Mongo DB

- Mongo DB stores all documents in collections. A collection is a
group of related documents that have a set of shared common
indexes. Collections are analogous to a table in relational
databases.

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Example
- Storing blog posts and related info. SQL Schema:

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Example
- Storing blog posts and related info. Mongo DB Schema:

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Data Partitioning Strategies
Vertical
Partitioning

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Horizontal
Partitioning
(SHARDING)
Vertical Partitioning

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Sharding

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BRAIN TEASER!!!!!!!!!
Hybrid Partitioning

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Plan BEFORE Architecting &

Coding
Semantics
Scale
Queries
Analytics
Real-time
Average Usage
Time
Predictable Bursting
Compute
Compute
Growing Fast
Average Usage
Time

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Using Blob Storage (Binary

Large OBject)

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Demo #10
- Creating Image for DB, creating VM from Image
- VS2013 Code Review of SQL DB & EF

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Demo #10: Understanding the

Code
Open VS2013 MyFixIt.Persistence

MyFixItContext.cs
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Code
The FixItContext class derives
from Entity Framework,
DbContext class, identifies the
database and specifies the
tables in the database.
The connection string in the

Web.config file is called
appdb. Here, points to the
local development database.

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Code

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Code
The Entity Framework creates a
FixItTasks table based on the
properties included in the
FixItTask entity class.
This is POCO (Plain Old CLR
Object) class. EF creates a
table and executes a CRUD
(create-read-update-delete)
ops.

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Server Explorer appdb FixItTasks Right-click and Show Table Data

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Demo #11
- Creating Storage Account from Azure Portal
- VS2013 Code Review of Blob creation

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Lab #3
Creating HelloWorldHYD2014 Cloud Services (Web & Worker Roles)
application and Publishing to Microsoft Azure; Storage Account;
Configure Auto-scaling.

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Lets go step by step to build this application.

Open Azure Storage Emulator. Open VS2013 as administrator.
New Project Templates Visual C# Cloud Azure Cloud Service name it HelloWorldHyderabad

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Select Visual C# one ASP.NET Web Role and Worker Role. Call it HelloWorldWeb and
HelloWorldWorker.

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Select MVC, OK
This creates the project
Right-click and Build the solution. The press F5.
Let us now add a

HelloWorld
controller.
HelloWorldWeb
Controller Right-click
and Add Controller.
It opens a new dialog
box. Select the Empty
Controller.
Name it
HelloWorldHyderabad
Controller.
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Open App_Start RouteConfig.cs

Controller = should be same as
controller name in .cs
Build All Press F5 to

run. You should see
Hello World! on your
browser.

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Right-click the cloud service, and then select Publish.

Sign-in into your Azure Subscription account; which you need to
select; and then settings where you can either select an existing
storage account in same region OR create a new one in same region.
Proceed next stage for provisioning this Cloud Service on Azure.
While provisioning, you can switch to Azure Management Portal and
see the VMs (Web & Worker Roles) getting created, Storage Account
getting created as well.

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Take Home Challenge!

Create an Azure Web Site and I want to set up Auto-scaling such that
when the load increases greater than 32% on target CPU till 73%; I
will have at least 2 CPUs at the lowest point and 5 at the highest
point.

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DAY #4
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Day1
Day2
Introduction
WPI & WebMatrix3

- Demo
MyFixIt Application
- Demo
One ASP.NET &

Microsoft Open
Technologies
Cloud
Development
Best Practices
Day3
Data Storage
Options
VM, Cloud Services

& Web Sites
Analysis
Why No-SQL?
Web Sites &

AutoScale Demo
Data Partitioning
Strategies
async in .NET 4.5
Blob Storage
VM Depot & Katana

walkthrough Demos
Code Review & 3

Best Practices
Code Review in
VS2013
Lab 1
Azure AD & SSO
Demos
Azure
Management
portal walkthrough
Lab 2
Lab 3

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Day4
Day5
Designing for
Lab 6
DevOps: Source
Control
Lab 7
PowerShell Cmdlets
& Docker - Demos
Using Queues on
Azure
Lab 8 & Lab 9
Code Examples
ASSESSMENT
Caching on Azure
Using Managed
Cache Service
Lab 4
Using Azure Redis

Cache
Lab 5
Take Home Challenge! Solution

Create an Azure Web Site and I want to set up Auto-scaling such that
when the load increases greater than 32% on target CPU till 73%; I
will have at least 2 CPUs at the lowest point and 5 at the highest
point.

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Caching on Azure
- Excellent for Read-Only Pattern when
underlying services of a Distributed
System is having issues
- Do not hit data source every time
- Cached data works well if customer
experience is taking a hit
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3 Types of Cache
- Azure Managed Cache Service
- Azure Redis Cache
- Azure In-Memory Cache
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Azure Managed Cache Service

(MCS)
-
Must use for building fast, highly scalable n-tier web

applications
Secure, Dedicated Cache, SLA 99.9% availability
3 offerings:
Basic - 128MB to 1GB cache sizes, non-HA, 128GB
increments
Standard - 1GB to 10GB cache sizes, non-HA, 1GB

increments
Premium - 5GB to 150GB cache

sizes, HA, 5GB

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Lab #4
Creating a Cache for Azure Managed Cache Service using Azure
PowerShell cmdlets. Connecting to this MCS from a client application.

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Open Azure PowerShell

as administrator
Type in Add-AzureAccount
which enters a dialog. Add
your Hotmail id associated
with Azure subscription
account and proceed.

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NewAzureManagedCache
-Name HydDemoCache
-Location "South
Central US" -Sku Basic
-Memory 128MB
Go to Configure and Scale options to review the options available.
Open VS2013 as admin; add a project; right-click and

then click Manage NuGet packages. Search for
WindowsAzure.Caching and then from the search
items, select Windows Azure Caching.

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Open web.config file.
Identify this line: <autoDiscover isEnabled="true" identifier="[Cache role name or

Service Endpoint]" />
Replace [Cache role name or Service Endpoint] with the endpoint URL which is displayed on the Cache
Dashboard in the Management Portal. In our example:
<autoDiscover isEnabled="true" identifier="hyddemocache.cache.windows.net" />

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Uncomment the securityProperties section, and replace [Authentication

Key] with the authentication key from the Azure portal Manage Keys
Primary Key
To use this programmatically:

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Redis
-
In-memory Cache key/value store but

took one step further.
Excellent replacement for memCached
But not a replacement for persistent

storage ( e.g. SQL server )

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Redis Tutorial
-
http://try.redis.io/

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Azure Redis Cache

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Secure, dedicated Redis cache, managed

by Microsoft. A cache created using Azure
Redis Cache is accessible from any
application within Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft Azure Redis Cache will be

available in two tiers:
- Basic Single node. Multiple sizes up to
53GB
- Standard Two-node Master/Slave.
Includes 99.9% SLA and replication
support. Up to 53 GB

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Lab #5
Creating and configuring a cache, configuring cache clients, adding and
removing objects from the cache, and storing ASP.NET session state in
the cache.

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3 steps
- Create the cache
- Configure the cache
- Configure the cache clients

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Azure Management portal

Cache

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Now, we will configure the cache clients.

- Open VS2013, create an ASP.NET application, and then install using
NuGet Powershell
#install-package StackExchange.Redis
#install-package
StackExchange.Redis.StrongName

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Using Redis Cache in Code

Reference to the cache
-
In order to programmatically work with a cache, you

need a reference to the cache. Add the following to the
top of any file from which you want to use the
StackExchange.Redis client to access an Azure Redis
Cache:

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Connect to the cache

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Set expiration to items in cache
-
To specify the expiration of an item in the cache, use the

TimeSpan parameter of StringSet.

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Store ASP.NET Session State in cache
-
Azure Redis Cache provides a session state provider that

you can use to store your session state in a cache rather
than in-memory or in a SQL Server database. To use the
caching session state provider, first configure your
cache, and then configure your ASP.NET application for
cache using the Redis Cache Session State NuGet
package.
#install-package
Microsoft.Web.RedisSessionStateProvider
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Check Web.config file

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Queuing on Azure
-
Enable more loose-coupling between web tier

& back-end
Enable asynchronous message processing in
case of failures
4
-
Key use cases to Identify:

High CPU
High Latency
Frequent / In-frequent Load Bursts
Service requiring a 3rd-Party Input

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Use Cases (Application

Developer)
-
Your application must store over 80 GB of messages

in a queue, where the messages have a lifetime
shorter than 7 days.
Your application wants to track progress for

processing a message inside of the queue. This is
useful if the worker processing a message crashes.
A subsequent worker can then use that information
to continue from where the prior worker left off.
You require server side logs of all of the

transactions executed against your queues.

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Tightly Coupled
MyFixIt Application
Web Server

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MyFixIt DB
Loosely Coupled
MyFixIt DB
MyFixIt Application
Web Server
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Queue Listener
Loosely Coupled, 1 Web Tier
Task Queue
MyFixIt Application
Web Server
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Queue Listener
Loosely Coupled, n Web Tier
Task Queue
Queue Listener
Queue successfully handles
burst
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Demo #12
How to leverage Queues in VS2013

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How to use it?

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How to use it?

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Old code

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New code

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DAY #5
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Day1
Day2
Introduction
WPI & WebMatrix3

- Demo
MyFixIt Application
- Demo
One ASP.NET &

Microsoft Open
Technologies
Cloud
Development
Best Practices
Day3
Data Storage
Options
VM, Cloud Services

& Web Sites
Analysis
Why No-SQL?
Web Sites &

AutoScale Demo
Data Partitioning
Strategies
async in .NET 4.5
Blob Storage
VM Depot & Katana

walkthrough Demos
Code Review & 3

Best Practices
Code Review in
VS2013
Lab 1
Azure AD & SSO
Demos
Azure
Management
portal walkthrough
Lab 2
Lab 3

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Day4
Day5
Designing for
Lab 6
DevOps: Source
Control
Lab 7
PowerShell Cmdlets
& Docker - Demos
Using Queues on
Azure
Lab 8 & Lab 9
Code Examples
ASSESSMENT
Caching on Azure
Using Managed
Cache Service
Lab 4
Using Azure Redis

Cache
Lab 5
Design to Survive Failures

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Failures will happen.

You either gracefully
handle it, or die.
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Types

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Understanding Scope
3
2
1
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Application SLA = ?

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Buy a Good Telemetry Service

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Lab #6
Creating a New Relic account, integrating it with an Azure Web Sites
application and then publishing to Azure; and checking out the tool

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Open web site, go to CONFIGURE, app settings
Open web site in WebMatrix, and then edit using VS2013.

Go to NuGet Package Manager Console:
Go into the newrelic.config file, and

copy in thelicense key from
Connection Info
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Build in VS2013, save all files and exit. Close V2013, open WebMatrix and
then Publish. It shows the new files to publish, click OK and proceed.
Go back to Azure portal, and

then NewRelic and then click
on Manage your application
and service. Takes you to the
NewRelic website and then
after accepting TOS.

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DevOps

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DevOps

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DevOps on Cloud

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DevOps Principles
Use Source Control
Automate Repetitive
Tasks using Runbooks

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Source Control
Use It
Branch out sources

Treat Automation No check-in
for DevOps processes
Scripts as of secrets (passwords,
& workflows
Source Control
settings)

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Create sub-branches
Production
Code in final
testing
Features being
Integrated

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Need a Hotfix/Bugfix?
Production
Code in final
testing
Confidence
Agility
Less Prone to
Errors
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Using Distributed Source

Control
Git
Mercurial
TFS
Visual Studio 2013 supports Git

Git-tooling built in
TFS Server & TFS Online Service
now supports publishing Git
repository
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Store Sensitive Data in Azure

Connection Strings in Azure
Microsoft Azure

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Web.config stores 2
connection strings for
password and the key to an
Azure storage account
Lab #7
Using Git in VS2013

Add Solution to Source Control
Git, OK, creates Git repository in solution folder
Right-click Solution Explorer, Commit
Enter commit comment, and click Commit
Compare with Modified, to see changes that were
made
Explore Branches, Merging etc.
Using Git in VS2013

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Automation in Microsoft Azure

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Automation in Microsoft Azure

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Demo #13
How to leverage Automation in Azure Management
Portal

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What are Cmdlets?

A cmdlet is a lightweight command that is used in the Windows
PowerShell environment. The Windows PowerShell runtime invokes
these cmdlets within the context of automation scripts that are
provided at the command line. The Windows PowerShell runtime also
invokes them programmatically through Windows PowerShell APIs.
Cmdlets perform an action and typically return a Microsoft .NET
Framework object to the next command in the pipeline. To write a
cmdlet, you must implement a cmdlet class that derives from one of
two specialized cmdlet base classes.

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Lab #8
Playing around with PowerShell Cmdlets & Run Books

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A few common Cmdlets:
Set-ExecutionPolicy
Add-AzureAccount
Get-AzureSubscription
Set-AzureSubscription
Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile
Import-AzurePublishSettings File
Get-AzureLocation
New-AzureAffinityGroup
New-AzureStorageAccount

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Open PowerShell as admin

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Before assigning CurrentStorageAccountName

to AzureSubscription

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After assigning CurrentStorageAccountName to

AzureSubscription
Before assigning CurrentStorageAccountName

to AzureSubscription

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After assigning CurrentStorageAccountName to

AzureSubscription
Staged Deployment & GitHub

Integration
When you deploy your application to Azure Web Sites, you can deploy to a separate
deployment slot instead of the default production slot, which are actually live sites with
their own hostnames. This option is available in the Standard web hosting plan.
Furthermore, you can swap the sites and site configurations between two deployment
slots, including the production slot.
Deploying your application to a deployment slot has the following benefits:
1. After a swap, the slot with previously staged site now has the previous production
site. If the changes swapped into the production slot are not as you expected, you
can perform the same swap immediately to get your "last known good site" back.
2. Deploying a site to a slot first and swapping it into production ensures that all
instances of the slot are warmed up before being swapped into production. This
eliminates downtime when you deploy your site.
3. The traffic redirection is seamless, and no requests are dropped as a result of swap
operations.
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Lab #9
Staged Deployment in Azure Web Sites with GitHub
Integration

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Go inside Staging Web

Site and Quick Glance.

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- Inside VS2013, right-click project and Add to Source Control

- Team Explorer Changes Commit the changes with a comment
- We then need to choose which Repository you wish to connect. Give URL for your GitHub
repository from the Azure Management Portal. And then connect in dialog and commit.
- Go to GitHub account repository, you will see the project has been pushed to GitHub.

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- Go to Make a change in the Startup script (add a comment for example), and Included
Changes will appear.

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Now make one more change in Startup file in VS2013; commit the changes, and then sync.

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Day1
Day2
Introduction
WPI & WebMatrix3

- Demo
MyFixIt Application
- Demo
One ASP.NET &

Microsoft Open
Technologies
Cloud
Development
Best Practices
Day3
Data Storage
Options
VM, Cloud Services

& Web Sites
Analysis
Why No-SQL?
Web Sites &

AutoScale Demo
Data Partitioning
Strategies
async in .NET 4.5
Blob Storage
VM Depot & Katana

walkthrough Demos
Code Review & 3

Best Practices
Code Review in
VS2013
Lab 1
Azure AD & SSO
Demos
Azure
Management
portal walkthrough
Lab 2
Lab 3

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Day4
Day5
Designing for
Lab 6
DevOps: Source
Control
Lab 7
PowerShell Cmdlets
& Docker - Demos
Using Queues on
Azure
Lab 8 & Lab 9
Code Examples
ASSESSMENT
Caching on Azure
Using Managed
Cache Service
Lab 4
Using Azure Redis

Cache
Lab 5
Assessment
End of Day 5
20 Multiple Choice Questions, 40 Minutes
- Each Correct answer = 5 points
- Each Incorrect answer = 0
- Maximum Score = 20 * 5 = 100/100
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24 BEST PRACTICES
Advanced Techniques.
Consider these ones before migrating applications to Cloud.

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24 Architectural Best Practices to follow before Migrating Line-ofBusiness (LOB) Applications to Cloud.
Download:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn568099.aspx

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FRE
Recommended
E
eBooks
Download & Print.

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Best Practices to follow:

-
Developer
IT Professional
Solutions Architect
Recommended for ALL

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Introduction to Azure:
- Coming from Infra
background

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Introduction to Azure:
- Coming from Developer
background

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Best Practices while dealing with

Hybrid Cloud
- Coming from Senior Solutions
Architect // IT background

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Introducing Microsoft Azure

HDInsight
- Coming back Developer / Big
Data / BI backgrounds

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Best Practices to Migrate

Applications to Microsoft Azure
- Coming back Developer /
Architect backgrounds

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Best Practices to Building /

Architecting Cloud Applications for
Scale
- Coming back Developer /
Architect backgrounds
- BUT first basics of Azure must
be very clear

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Workshop Deck
http://bit.ly/12SrwVd
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Dec 8-12 2014

Programming Azure Better, Best Practices & DevOps

Objective of the Workshop:

10:00am 12:00pm Session 2 hrs

Programming Azure Better, Best Practices & DevOps

WPI & WebMatrix3

One ASP.NET &

VM, Cloud Services

Web Sites &

async in .NET 4.5

VM Depot & Katana

Code Review & 3

Azure AD & SSO

Programming Azure Better, Best Practices & DevOps

Lab 8 & Lab 9

Using Azure Redis

2 Take Home Challenges!

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WPI & WebMatrix3

One ASP.NET &

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Web Sites &

async in .NET 4.5

VM Depot & Katana

Code Review & 3

Azure AD & SSO

Programming Azure Better, Best Practices & DevOps

Lab 8 & Lab 9

Using Azure Redis

Take Home Challenge! Solution

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