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Take a look at how busy the Clownd forum isn't :) That said, I'm over 30 so anything new is the work of the devil...
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It's difficult to answer as it's all virtual. According to Microsoft there are 853,000 active developers[1]. However using empirical evidence[2] the figure is much lower. About 3. [1] Numbers made up for the benefit of a good reasonable terrible joke. [2] That is what I am doing.
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fuck off....
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fuck off....
Delightful chap, that education really did you the power of good, didn't it.
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Delightful chap, that education really did you the power of good, didn't it.
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]There's always the Report Member button. I'd say this definitely counts as abusive.
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fuck off....
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There's always the Report Member button. I'd say this definitely counts as abusive.
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I'm considering deveoting some time to getting my head stuck into Azure. I've a few questions: 1. Is there anybody learning Azure at the moment? 2. Is there anybody doing fulltime Azure development? [Dont vote just answer]
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I'm considering deveoting some time to getting my head stuck into Azure. I've a few questions: 1. Is there anybody learning Azure at the moment? 2. Is there anybody doing fulltime Azure development? [Dont vote just answer]
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Norm .net wrote:
1. Is there anybody learning Azure at the moment?
We're looking into it primarily because we know that clients are buying into the hype (sorry, I mean well thought out and reasoned marketing spiel). If we want to keep getting clients, we have to work with what they want.
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I have no experience whatsoever with Azure, but IMO it is definitely worth a try, while: - There will always be someone interested in _using_ the technology. - There is currently very few interest in _developing for_ that technology. Smells like a niche.
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Norm .net wrote:
1. Is there anybody learning Azure at the moment?
We're looking into it primarily because we know that clients are buying into the hype (sorry, I mean well thought out and reasoned marketing spiel). If we want to keep getting clients, we have to work with what they want.
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]And yet his rep is still positive!
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And yet his rep is still positive!
Not his debator points :)
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And yet his rep is still positive!
Then exercise your powers to vote.
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Keith Barrow wrote:
That said, I'm over 30 so anything new is the work of the devil...
Should be a factor to like at it, after its all rehashed stuff from the past :)
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That's the problem with it for me: it is and it isn't rehashed-stuff-for-the-past. It is in essence a return to the bad old Mainframe Computer model, but this time with added insecurity. Do they really back up properly? How many people have access to our data? Can our data be intercepted?
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That's the problem with it for me: it is and it isn't rehashed-stuff-for-the-past. It is in essence a return to the bad old Mainframe Computer model, but this time with added insecurity. Do they really back up properly? How many people have access to our data? Can our data be intercepted?
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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I'm considering deveoting some time to getting my head stuck into Azure. I've a few questions: 1. Is there anybody learning Azure at the moment? 2. Is there anybody doing fulltime Azure development? [Dont vote just answer]
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I got some nice tours of Azure a while back, and developed a few simple apps to try the platform. I still have my account, but I haven't been back. Here's the thing...Azure serves a very specific purpose, and it serves that purpose very well, but the hype surrounding it makes it sound like it serves lots of other purposes, which just isn't true. If you are building an app that will have reasonably consistant traffic all year round, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a standard hosted app, stick it on a dedicated server if it's important enough, do a bit of load balancing of needed. That hosting technology works just fine and will probably be more cost effective than hosting in "the cloud". The only benefit I could see from Azure was for apps that experience massive spikes in demand. E.g. If John and George rose from the dead and the Beatles announced a world Tour, TicketMaster would see some serious action on their booking systems. But once the tickets had sold out TicketMaster would be back to their average load. It doesn't make sense for Ticket Master to keep massive amounts of excess capacity spun up ready for the next big spike, and it may not be cost effective to try to ramp up traditional hosting at short notice (who knows how long undead John and George will be around, gotta get this tour on fast). This is where Azure is great, and hats off to them, what I saw was very impressive. But 99% of people who talk to me about the Cloud are talking crap, they think cloud is just another name for web hosting...only better. If you're going to get into Azure, do your customers a favour and make sure it's a correct fit for them. -Richard
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I got some nice tours of Azure a while back, and developed a few simple apps to try the platform. I still have my account, but I haven't been back. Here's the thing...Azure serves a very specific purpose, and it serves that purpose very well, but the hype surrounding it makes it sound like it serves lots of other purposes, which just isn't true. If you are building an app that will have reasonably consistant traffic all year round, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a standard hosted app, stick it on a dedicated server if it's important enough, do a bit of load balancing of needed. That hosting technology works just fine and will probably be more cost effective than hosting in "the cloud". The only benefit I could see from Azure was for apps that experience massive spikes in demand. E.g. If John and George rose from the dead and the Beatles announced a world Tour, TicketMaster would see some serious action on their booking systems. But once the tickets had sold out TicketMaster would be back to their average load. It doesn't make sense for Ticket Master to keep massive amounts of excess capacity spun up ready for the next big spike, and it may not be cost effective to try to ramp up traditional hosting at short notice (who knows how long undead John and George will be around, gotta get this tour on fast). This is where Azure is great, and hats off to them, what I saw was very impressive. But 99% of people who talk to me about the Cloud are talking crap, they think cloud is just another name for web hosting...only better. If you're going to get into Azure, do your customers a favour and make sure it's a correct fit for them. -Richard
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Richard thanks for that, just the information I was looking for, which answers the question. I'll probably look at Azure so I'm familiar with the technology/terminalogy and let it at that until I have a real world case use for it. Thanks.
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I'm considering deveoting some time to getting my head stuck into Azure. I've a few questions: 1. Is there anybody learning Azure at the moment? 2. Is there anybody doing fulltime Azure development? [Dont vote just answer]
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I've seen a few real world cases for Amazon, don't know about Azure. Mattel sent out millions of Barbie doll catalog that referenced a web application and forgot to notify their development team, so they had a company port it to amazon services over a few days. Another example is Zynga. They ramped up from 0 to millions of users in a few months. A financial news site provisions their load hourly so they pay for more servers at the open and close of the markets, less during the middle of the day and even less over night. Someone's blog or standard commerce site, not so much.
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