One of my favorite things to do is talk at professional conferences. If you've ever seen me speak at one, you'll know immediately that professional speaking is not an essential skill in my profession, but I am getting a little better each time. I will be speaking at VSLive in Dallas about one of my favorite topics: cloud computing.
Come see me from 9:45 - 11:00 AM on Tuesday, December 9. My hope is to dispel some of the hype, and related mistrust, surrounding cloud computing. I will give you the practical knowledge of how to build big-company reliability and scalability into your product for a small-company price. Amazon's web services offerings are changing the landscape of software development - come see how it can impact you.
Here's the official session information:
Cloud Computing for .NET Developers
Cloud computing services are beginning to impact the developer community in a big way. Companies ranging from microISV start-ups to Fortune 500 companies are finding tremendous value in cloud-sourcing functions traditionally serviced by in-house facilities. Amazon's Simple Storage Service broke the ice with inexpensive large-scale reliable storage that catered to the development community. More recently, the Simple Queue Service, the Elastic Compute Cloud, and SimpleDB services have made possible what was too expensive to consider previously. The time has come to change the way we look at infrastructure - not only do we not need to build these services any longer, but we don't even need to manage them.
This session will start by exploring the possibilities to leverage cloud services available from Amazon. We will discuss how they are commonly being used, and how the services can best be adopted in your applications. Then we will spend the majority of our time exploring code to use each of these services inside your applications. We will discuss freely available tools and libraries that are available and how they can serve you best. PowerPoint will be kept to a minimum in favor of code and samples. You will leave this session with a solid understanding of how cloud computing services can help you build more robust applications more quickly and less expensively.
If you use the promotional code SPJON when you register, you'll receive $300 off your conference registration package of your choice!
