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I've been working almost full-time on Azure for the past 18 months or so. One of the tools linked in my signature runs on Azure, and other is being ported right now. I really like Azure. Sure, it's a bit hard to grasp its particular flavor of NoSQL, but in the end it's something that I enjoy and recommend.
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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 work part time on Azure, and in my opinion (and I think Gartner/Forrester too) the AppFabric is the best part of the Azure platform. Callbacks in the ACS cache are pretty great as well. ACS is consuming much of my recent time with federating OAuth/OData services, but other then that it's pretty straightfoward. (The OAuth spec is constantly changing and the reason for the extra time.)
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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]
Software Kinetics - The home of good software
The intent of Azure is to provide a development environment that is accessable to everyone, any where, at any time. So, as a consequence, the market value of software developer skill sets will be driven down to those prevalent in the 3rd world. As such, if you live in the 1st world and have to make a living, don't bother to enter into the Azure world. Instead, transition into another field of work that will pay you enough to support yourself and your family.
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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]
Software Kinetics - The home of good software
I briefly looked into Azure, since I have a bunch of Websites, but discovered that it just wasn't worth it. My costs would have tripled compared to what I get from my reseller hosting account. Granted, Azure scales automatically, but until I write the new Facebook, it's just not something I need right now.
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Tomz_KV wrote:
f you have been working with sql database, you'll need to lower your expectation a lot.
You mean like MySql ;)
Software Kinetics - The home of good software
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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]
Software Kinetics - The home of good software
Microsoft came to our company to do a dog and pony show on azure. The long and short of it is that much of the promised functionality isn't done yet. I'd wait about 18 months before starting. In the meantime you can learn something that works now. If azure goes away, you won't have wasted your time.
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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]
Software Kinetics - The home of good software
I'm working on a project that to get off the ground requires a significant investment in a data center. The system is complex with transactions and content delivery. While all the market studies are positive other companies have been unable to be successful in the space. We are using Azure because it will scale should it take off and we don't have to commit to building the data center until we prove the market. I think Azure will have value in providing a means of building complex enterprise applications without requiring the up front capital investment allowing more unsure products to be developed and tried in the marketplace.
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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]
Software Kinetics - The home of good software
I'm doing some MPI work on Azure as a experiment for the company I work for. We have it working and the EXTRA-LARGE nodes are pretty good for CPU bound work, 14 Gigabytes of memory, 8 cores, and a Terabyte of disk space. But the network isn't much to talk about, it is GigE and MPI runs pretty slow on it. Deployment is good and fast, I can put Ansys Fluent 13 on it and run some benchmarks and get usable results. However, the license server is in our corpnet and we had to setup a secure VPN connection from the Azure nodes to access the license server for lmgrd to work. So, there's a lot of moving parts for it now, but it suppose to get better hearing Microsoft talk about it...:) Rep was even saying something about Infiniband QDR, dedicated hardware and GPU support in the future.
Lyle
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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]
Software Kinetics - The home of good software
I attend the Boston Azure Users Group meetings. They have been meeting once a month for over a year now. Attendance grows monthly. Great presentations, great networking every month. I've decided to take one of my side projects to Azure. Microsoft has been helpful in providing resources. User group attendees have been great about pointing me in the right direction and answer questions. I'm still an Azure noob, but I'm "getting it". Jeff
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Dont worry in the next 15 years or so cloud will be gone and we'll be back to desktop again ;)
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Norm .net wrote:
Dont worry in the next 15 years or so cloud will be gone and we'll be back to desktop again ;)
We seem to go through a cycle every 8 or 10 years where they try to swing things back to the dumb terminal/mainframe model again. Last time it was the Web PC. This time it's the "cloud". It'll pass and the sun will come out again! I don't "get" the idea of "online" compilers, DB's etc... I've seen it demonstrated, too. Yawn. -Max :D
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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]
Software Kinetics - The home of good software
Good morning Just to divert the conversation in a more positive direction we are using Azure for a couple of large clients websites which have the potential of growing quite large. I know another local company which also using Azure wholly for their client for mission critical solutions as well (if they did not work people would die). One of the reasons we used Azure for one of our sites is the capacity / room to grow. We have our own server farm however this site is a video sharing / social site and potentially could have thousands of videos (if not more) being uploaded by servers. Storage/bandwidth etc is not a worry with Azure and cheaper than us hosting / streaming also. Azure is a great platform, but does not suit all companies/applications. Concerns with data security which have been raised are normally more the normal scaremongering which always get raised in the cloud. Additional security can always be put in yourself if you are really that concerned so even MS would not have access to the actual data. Shane
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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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