The slides include architecture aspects, technical aspects, as well as negotiation and functional hints. It’s not meant to be an absolute best-practices architecture guide, it’s only the result of this very specific project.

You can check/download the deck here.

Special thanks to NetPonto for the invitation, and to the audience for the participation and great feeedback in this LONG session :).

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The session was mostly demo-based, and included the “traditional” WebMatrix/WordPress demo, but with the added value of demoing a content migration from another blog engine. After this I did a continuous integration, test and automated deployment demo. Didn’t have the time to show custom deployment scripts, but it was the star of the show, in my opinion. It’s easy to get it working and covers a large percentage of Webdev use cases. The following demo was simply showing how to associate a custom domain to a web site, and what is possible in terms of SSL (both kinds, SNI&IP).

The next demo was related to a request and the need to clarify that you can host wcf web services in an Azure WebSite, and for this demo I also showed , especially helpful for diagnostics and operations.

I ended the session talking about architecture, scaling, service tiers and pricing, and a Q&A. There were several questions, perhaps the most relevant being about Azure Web Sites vs Azure Web Roles. The stronger scaling possibilities, and running setup scripts, are strong arguments for Web Roles, the simplicity and more focused web offering, for Web Sites. This would be my choice, in general.

Another interesting event, with good session feedback.

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Also interesting and related to something I have in hands at the moment is Nuno Godinho’s post “Lessons Learned: Taking the best out of Windows Azure Virtual Machines”. Interesting feedback from using IaaS. SharePoint Server has been implemented everywhere in the last few years. Azure IaaS is especially interesting for these scenarios.

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There’s more information about the event here.

Update: you can find the slides here. The video of the previous delivery of the session at Netponto is here (note: contents in Portuguese). As to the session on Saturday, the topic always raises lots of interest and conversations, and this was no exception. I n my view, this topic should be studied in CompSci courses.

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The registration site (in portuguese) is here. I’ll upload the slides to Slideshare after the event.

Update: the event was great. Not a long session, but the people were interested and had very good feedback. Sharing real experiences always makes a difference. Here’s the deck.

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In the begging of the month there were some sessions at TechEd North America about the future of Microsoft’s integration offering,  I’m looking forward to hear this in person at TechEd Europe starting tomorrow.

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More information about this Microsoft event is here.

PS: my colleague Raúl Ribeiro will also be presenting at the event, a session on the newly released Azure WebSites.

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This next Saturday I’ll be presenting on the topic of Software Estimation. Here at |create|it| we have always had a very strong focus and investment on the quality of our estimation and project management, and we use several techniques from authors such as Steve McConnell and Mike Cohn. The presentation builds on some choice approaches we selected mainly from these authors in the last 10 years, and in addition to describing them, I’ll be talking on how we use them, hoping to give attendants some field tips from our experience

Hope to see you there.

PS: Next June 21’s the portuguese Scrum Community will hold an avent to commemorate the member number 1000. Lear more about is here, the agenda looks pretty interesting!

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[Edit] Kent Weare also has an interesting post on this topic, based on a presentation at TechEd US (I think).

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