On May 20 I presented Cloud Architecture Anti-Patterns: A concise overview of some bad ideas to the .NET Architecture Group.

Here is the deck:

• 2015-05-20 – Cloud Architecture Anti-Patterns – .NET Architecture Group – Bill Wilder

Any feedback is welcome. Feel free to comment here or on the twitters:@codingoutloud.

Last week I was delighted to speak to the très agréable folks at the Groupe Azure Montréal.

My talk was: “Top Azure Features Every ASP.NET Developer Should Know About” and the abstract (in both French and English) is included below. Had a great time hanging out in advance of the event with both Alexandre Brisebois and Guy Barrette who were superb hosts and helped me and Maura get the most of our short trip to their fine city.

Here is a link to the slide deck (in PowerPoint): 2014-04-28 – April 28 – Groupe Azure Montréal – Top Azure Features Every ASP.NET Developer Should Know About.pptx

The sample code I spent the most time on can be found here: 

• https://github.com/codingoutloud/flasky (Python – used to demo automated deployment from github)
• https://github.com/codingoutloud/PragmaticAzureDemo (C# with ETW and Azure Active Directory code – the AAD keys are in this file, but they have been invalidated, so you’d need to generate your own to run this sample)

ABSTRACT

Lundi le 28 Avril 2014, nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Bill Wilder, auteur du livre « Cloud Architecture Patterns: Using Microsoft Azure », pour une présentation qui nous fera découvrir les meilleures facettes de la plateforme Microsoft Azure tout en mettent l’emphase sur le développement ASP.NET.

Bill adore partager et apprendre sur une multitude de sujets. Profitez-en pour lui poser vos questions à propos des patterns, des meilleur pratiques et des technologies qui en tour le cloud.

Inscrivez-vous sur notre page Meetup http://www.meetup.com/dotnetmontreal/events/135071842/

NOTE: Cette présentation sera en anglais

Sujet: Top Azure Features Every ASP.NET Developer Should Know About

Let’s face it: as technologists, “the cloud” is in the future for all of us, and resistance is futile. For many of us who predominantly develop on Microsoft technologies, adopting the Microsoft Azure cloud platform will be a natural progression.

How to get started? In this talk we will cover some easy ways to get started with the cloud, progressing from simple ideas to more ambitious ones as we go. Similar to how learning a new programming paradigm tends to stretch the mind (e.g., a C# developer learning functional programming with F#), you will also see that learning how to develop for the cloud will inform and shape how you go about developing day to day – even if not (yet) for the cloud.

Some of the topics we will cover (in varying depths) include devops, dev-test, non-.NET tool stacks, federated identity, semantic logging, and cloud-friendly architecture patterns – all while touching on a variety of Azure features and services on the way.

Conférencier: Bill Wilder, MVP Azure, Boston USA

Bill Wilder (Principal Cloud Architect for Development Partners Software Corporation) is a hands-on developer, architect, consultant, trainer, speaker, writer, and community leader focused on helping companies and individuals succeed with the cloud using the Microsoft Azure Platform. Bill began working with Microsoft Azure when it was unveiled at the Microsoft PDC in 2008 and subsequently founded Boston Azure, the first/oldest Microsoft Azure user group in the world in October 2009. Bill is recognized by Microsoft as a Microsoft Azure MVP and an Azure Insider, and is the author of the book Cloud Architecture Patterns, published by O’Reilly in September 2012. Bill can be found blogging at blog.codingoutloud.com and on Twitter at @codingoutloud. You can also check out the Boston Azure cloud user group at www.bostonazure.org and @bostonazure.