In this next part of the series Brad Abrams talks about Azure.
Azure represents a general trend in the industry towards a cloud computing model. As much as I love the development phase of projects, the operations side is often the most cost intensify part. With economies of scale, cloud computing has the potential to greatly reduce those costs. I think example I took advantage of Windows Azure to host the web-tier of the application and Sql Azure to host the data. Those are actually independent decisions. You could decide to host one and not the other.
Here are the previous parts of Brad's series:
- Part 1: Navigation Basics
- Part 2: Rich Data Query
- Part 3: Authentication
- Part 4: SEO, Export to Excel and Out of Browser
- Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms
- Part 6: Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)
- Part 7: ADO.NET Data Services Based Data Store
- Part 8: WCF Based Data Source
- Part 9: POCO and Authentication Provider
- Part 10: LinqToSql
- Part 11: The Client-Only World
- Part 12: DataSet
- Part 13: The New Class Library Project
- Part 14: Visual Basic (VB) and WPF Support
- Part 15: ASP.NET MVC
- Part 16: Exposing a WCF Service
- Part 17: Evolving an Application
- Part 18: Custom Linq Provider
- Part 19: ASP.NET Dynamic Data
- Part 20: NHibernate
- Part 21: Hierarchical Data
- Part 22: Separate Solution Files