Martin Beeby

@thebeebs

Building the Tech.Days Websitemartin.beeby@microsoft.com

What is Tech.Days• An event in London• In a cinema in Fullam• 3000 developers• 150,000 developers will use the site

to catch up with videos of talks

the meeting

choose umbraco

used by many large sites

choose azure

Shipping Containers have never been so sexy

Azure is Cloud Computing• Investment in Datacenters all over

the world• Azures has been around for around 3

and a half years• Some day all sites will be run on

platforms like Azure

3 Key Principles• You should be able to focus on your

application not the infrastructure• You should be able to pay as you go• You should be able to code in

whatever you like

Open and Flexible

Leverage Existing

Investments

Ready for the next

generation of apps

3 Key Concepts• Scalable environment for running code• Enables .net, C++, PHP Ruby, Python• Automated service management

Compute

• Scalable and highly available cloud storage• Blobs, Tables, Queues, Drives• REST APIs and several client libraries

Storage

• SQL Relational Database• Familiar programming model and tools.

Database

Compute

Storage

Database

short term traffic

the azure war story

umbraco + azure = right thing

so what is umbraco?

http://azureaccelerators.codeplex.com

So would I recommend it?

Umbraco 5• Coming Soon…. Like really soon• Built from the ground up to support

Azure, built in MVC• Adding more machines is as simple as

moving a slider

thankyou