My Windows Azure talk (or) How I need to stop people from watching Raymond Chen or Anders Hejlsberg
[Update: The video of my talk is now up at http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/E S03/ ]
Wondering what the image represents? I’ll get to that in just a bit :-). Since we’re officially out in the open now, I can a talk bit more about my talk on Wednesday. I also realized that my talk is in the exact same slot as Raymond Chen’s and Anders Hejlsberg’s and Chris Sells’ so I thought I should do some plugging (since even I would be tempted to watch one of those three speak :-) ).
The title of my talk has changed a few times over the last few weeks. At some points in time we had called it ‘A day in the life of a cloud services developer’ and finally settled on ‘Best practices for cloud service development’. Unfortunately, the PDC session list doesn’t seem to have the latest title though it does have the latest abstract.
- In essence, this is a talk about best practices, principles and lessons
- learned. Over the last several years, we as a company and as a industry have
- built together a great deal of ‘tribal knowledge’ on how to build scalable
- services. Nowhere is this more apparent than in sites like
- highscalability.com. In my talk, I try to
- distill down that tribal knowledge and tips on how to implement some of that
- on top of Windows Azure into something that fits into one hour. Now, since I’m
- not exactly a traditional speaker (I don’t have a single bullet), expect this
- talk to be different. That picture at the top of this post is one of my slides
- -).
I showed a friend at work my talk and after a long pause, his response was “_This talk will either be the greatest ever or complete sh*t”._ To find out which of the two it is going to be, come on over to Petree Hall CD at 3:00 PM on Wednesday . My talk is ES03. The title currently says Windows Azure: A day in the life of a cloud services developer but that might change. For folks not at PDC, I’ll link to the video as soon as it is up.