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The PDC ended over a week ago with me coming back home this Wednesday after a short vacation. On this blog post, I’ll try to summarize my main thoughts and conclusions from this year’s conference and also give a quick reminder regarding the upcoming SDP. Cloud Computing in Full Thrust In my opinion, the main issue in this year’s PDC was Microsoft’s full thrust motion towards cloud computing with Windows Azure . Ray Ozzie’s vision of “ Three Screens in a Cloud ” and Bob Muglia’s approach to “ Cloud...
In this PDC session, Nicholas Allen, Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation, reviewed various extensibility points in Windows Serer AppFabric workflow hosting . Hosting Workflows AppFabric ships with three out-of-the-box extensible workflow hosts: Workflow Driven Application – A host for workflows which are used as an execution engine and which do not require WCF interaction to drive them. Workflow Service – A host for workflows which require WCF message interactions with the outside world. Scaled...
In this PDC session, Mark Fussel, Program Manager at Microsoft, spoke of creating Workflow Services in .NET 4.0, and hosting and deploying them on Windows Server AppFabric. AppFabric AppFabric provides a set of features for hosting, managing and deploying workflow services: A set of runtime databases for persisting and monitoring the running instances. Persistence services. Hosting of the runtime. Auto-start applications – start the service when the machine starts. Pushing diagnostics information...
In this PDC session, Ed Pinto, Program Manager at Microsoft, reviewed the many new additions to WCF 4.0. REST and WF services were not covered in this session, as they are covered in other sessions. WCF Configuration Default Endpoints – The WCF team took feedback in and decided to prefer “Convention over Configuration”. This means that if an endpoint is not explicitly configured for your service, a default endpoint will be created whose configuration is set by convention. Default Bindings – It is...
In this PDC session, Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, Principal Software Architect at Microsoft, presented the caching functionality of Windows Server AppFabric, which replaces the project formerly known as “Velocity”. What is AppFabric Caching? AppFabric caching is an explicit, distributed in-memory cache for all kinds of application data. In a typical 3-tier application, one has three tiers: User/Presentation, Application/Web and Data. As the load on the application grows, things start to work slower...
In this PDC session, Anil Nori, Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft’s server application group, presented an overview of the upcoming server technologies coming from Microsoft. 2010 Wave Initially, Anil spoke of the application serer technologies which are due to be released during 2010. .NET 4.0 – WCF & WF .NET 4.0 contains many WCF productivity enhancements, dramatic improvements in WF and deeper integration between WCF and WF. These improvements and modifications are shipped with Visual-Studio...
In the second PDC keynote, Bob Muglia, President of Server Applications & Tools, spoke of the Cloud Application Model as the next widespread and accepted software model: Mainframe. Client-Server. Web. SOA. Cloud Computing. According to Bob’s vision, cloud computing would be successful as it would enable some very complex scenarios such as scaling out, failure resiliency and many more which are hard to deal with today. Several announcements were made during the session, and these are highlighted...