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Building SharePoint Apps with Azure PaaSKirk EvansArchitect, Modern Apps Center of ExcellenceMicrosoft Corporation

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Azure Web Sites Azure Storage Web Jobs

Agenda

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Selfie App

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Azure Storage

What We’ll Build Today

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Cloud Computing Patterns

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On and OffOn & off workloads (e.g. batch job)Over provisioned capacity is wasted Time to market can be cumbersome

Unpredictable BurstingUnexpected/unplanned peak in demand Sudden spike impacts performance Can’t over provision for extreme cases

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Growing FastSuccessful services needs to grow/scale Keeping up w/ growth is big IT challenge Cannot provision hardware fast enough

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Predictable BurstingServices with micro seasonality trends Peaks due to periodic increased demandIT complexity and wasted capacity

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Pay only for what you use

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Web Sites

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Build with ASP.NET, Java, Node.js, Python, or PHP

Deploy in seconds with FTP, Git, or TFS Start for free, scale up as your traffic grows

Web Sites

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Our Scenario

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Demo: Azure Web Sites

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Storage

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Azure Storage Abstractions

TablesStructured storage. A table is a set of entities; an entity is

a set of properties.

QueuesReliable storage and delivery of messages for an application.

BlobsSimple named files along with metadata for the file.

DrivesDurable NTFS volumes for Windows Azure applications to use. Based on Blobs.

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Azure Storage

Our Scenario

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Demo: Azure Table Storage

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Web Jobs

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Web Jobs.exe - .NET assemblies compiled with WebJobs SDK .cmd, .bat, .exe (using windows cmd) .sh (using bash) .php (using php) .py (using python) .js (using node)

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Azure Storage

Our Scenario

locations

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“PartitionKey + RowKey”

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Demo: Azure Web Jobs

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Get started for free 10 free Azure web sites 40 MB free Azure SQL database

Free one month trial $200 credit Full access to everything

MSDN Benefit Credits every month

Summary

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SDK, Tutorials, and Documentation http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net

Blogs Creating a SharePoint 2013 App With Azure Web Sites Attaching Remote Event Receivers to Lists in the Host Web

Building a SharePoint App as a Timer Job Scaling up and scaling out in Windows Azure Web Sites

Best Practices for Windows Azure Web Sites Introducing Windows Azure Web Jobs

Links

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http://officeams.codeplex.com

Source for great reference app implementationsPublishing channel for ready to use examples on apps,

which you can use in your own projects

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