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You might have noticed it already over the past few months, the focus of my blog is starting to shift, even though I haven't blogged to much... Ever since Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform, has been announced at PDC last year, I have been playing with this new environment. I've been in a learning mode mostly as I try to figure out how to best build systems in an endlessly scalable world where some of the staple products, such as databases, don't exist or don't make sense.
One of the biggest enablers for learning more about this product has been a special interest group that I've set up internally at Capgemini. In this SIG quite a few of my colleagues teamed up with me to discuss various questions and play around with the bits as new CTP's came out. Some of the most important questions that have been discussed are e.g. 'what kind of enterprise would benefit from cloud computing?', 'how do you deploy a system that has scaled so much that you can't possible take everything down at once?', 'How do I store data if there is no concept of a database?', 'How to maintain integrity if the platform isn't going to support distributed transactions?', 'What kinds of architectures are suitable for such an environment?' and so much more.
Even though I have been in this learning mode mostly, now on I believe I know enough about it to start sharing some of the knowledge I gained during these SIG's and my personal experiments. So expect yourself to see some more blog posts around here on the topic of Azure in the upcoming months...
Note: this also means that I'm very eager to hear any question you might have about the Azure platform. So in case you have any, send me a mail on yves ad goeleven dot com.
Posted by Yves on Thursday, July 02, 2009, 0 Comments
Once the summer is over, I'm going to join Kurt Claeys to start a new belgian user group on Azure.
I'm quite into this new platform for the last months, which you might have noticed as I've been blogging about some of my experiments with it like the cloud queue channel and how to build an EDA on top of Azure
So if you are interested in Azure as well, feel free to join us in our first event, which should occur early in september...
See you then.
Posted by Yves on Sunday, June 21, 2009, 0 Comments
I'm also very proud that my first article on the Microsoft Belux Architect Newsletter has been published today:
EDA on the Azure Platform
In this article I take a deep dive in the architectual challenges that a highly distributed system, such a Azure, poses to us humble architects.
I will also provide an architecture, called Event Driven Architecture, that can be used to overcome many of these challenges. I both explain what the essential parts of such an architecture are and how the Azure platform provides most of the required building blocks for implementing a system this way.
I've allready got great responses to the article, so you might be interested to take some time to read it yourself...
Posted by Yves on Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 1 Comments
Yesterday I delivered a talk to the belgian Visual Studio User Group, Visug, about the aspects of DDD that are mostly targetted at developers...
I must admit that I really enjoyed the talk, there was great interest from the public, I got loads of questions. So I need to pay my gratitude to the audience.
In case you missed it, or you would like to review the content once more, here are the slides:
Domain Driven Design.pptx
Posted by Yves on Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 3 Comments
You might have noticed that the site has been down for a few days. My provider told me that they had issues with the configuration of the server that it was hosted on, and that they have trouble figuring out what is going on exactly
In the mean time, the site has been moved to another server and we are back up and running again...
Posted by Yves on Friday, June 05, 2009, 0 Comments