The videos from the keynotes yesterday are available from http://www.sela.co.il/s/dev4/dev4.html Go to the icon of the video and scroll the bar to the 48:30 minute to see the Windows Azure 25 minutes overview.
In this post I’d like to remind the key takeaways from the Windows Azure keynotes today. The purpose of the talk was basically to present answers to 5 questions: Why, What, Where, When and How…. Why should developers care about the cloud? (1) To save costs by paying to the cloud provider for what they consume and not upfront (2) To reduce the complexity for the developers of taking care of computation and storage resources that you can get from the cloud in a more elastic and manageable manner. What...
Wow, what an event! 1700 Developers and thousands more live through the Internet participated in the annual developers event. During the keynotes today, I had the pleasure of launching the cloud platform for developers, the Windows Azure Platform. In this post, I’ll talk about the end of my session that included a demo that was running on Windows Azure and its purpose was to present a questionnaire to the developers in the audience who use Twitter. The service in the cloud asked the audience 3 questions...