Microsoft

Developer Evangelist

Chanhassen, Minnesota

• Rock Paper Azure

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  Did you play Rock, Paper, Scissors as a kid? Does it still determine who makes the afternoon coffee run? Then you already know how to play the game. Now's your chance to code your own player "bot" and test your skills by taking the game to a whole new level in the Cloud. In this session we explore how the competition works and what you need to know to come out on top.

  Level: 100

  Speaker: Mike Benkovich

  Topics: Azure & Cloud

• Exploring Scalability and Roles

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  Handling a spike in demand or just ramping up for the end of the month demands that we are ready to scale up our processing capacity to meet that demand. Here we will take a look at how to plan for and design into our solutions the ability to scale out our systems. This last session explores multi-tenancy, message queues, worker roles and more to see how you can get the most out of your investment in the cloud.

  Level: 100

  Speaker: Mike Benkovich

  Topics: Azure & Cloud

• Hello Azure

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  You’ve heard the buzz, now explore why the cloud is important and how you can take advantage of the elasticity, performance and availability offered by Windows Azure. This session will start by exploring how cloud computing will change the way developers build and deploy systems, the dive into the Windows Azure Platform and how it works, and wrap up with how to take your existing site and take it to the cloud. If you’re new to cloud computing this is a session for you!

  Level: 100

  Speaker: Mike Benkovich

  Topics: Azure & Cloud