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MVA

Introduction (30 min)

  • Who we are and what we do
  • Our blogs
  • What's azure

Application and architecture walk-through (1 hour)

  • Slide showing all of azure and all the crazy services http://i.imgur.com/96sUcGk.jpg
  • Highlight the bits of the diagram we're going to use
  • Diagram of the application
  • Discuss the various different parts and how each one of them scales under load

DNS (1 hour)

  • how does DNS work?
  • TTL? Time to lunch?
  • what are our other DNS options?
  • DNS almost finishes up all the services needed to do everything within azure (SSL and domain registration)

Batch (1 hour)

  • still lots of need for batch processing (month end processing, file processing)
  • how does this differ from other compute services/when to use batch over web jobs
  • what batch is built on top of

Table storage (1 hour)

  • what is table storage (column store)
  • how does this differ from relational databases?
  • how can we fit this information into an application?
  • super super cheap

Elastic search (1 hour)

  • elastic search vs azure search
  • how we're going to use this
  • the usefulness of centralized logging
  • logstash, kibana, logship
  • docker
  • how to integrate with azure services

Autoscale (1 hour)

  • how autoscale works
  • what limits to set
  • demo of autoscale try to force a scaling event
  • how to use metrics other than what azure offers (monitor and then use the api)

Review and Summary, possibly questions? (45 min)

  • stop asking me so many questions, I'm tired and want supper
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