jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Jun 18 10:00:50 CDT 2010
I would like to get in on this as well. Last time I got overwhelmed with everything I did not know, but this time I am reasonably fluent in C#. Sounds like it could be fun. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Mark Breen wrote: > Hello Guys, > > Last year Shamil kicked off a scrum team which about five / six people > participated in. We did a project and it was fun. I think one or two > people ended up with the lions share of the work but in general it was fun > and the project is more or less complete / dormant now and is available on > codeplex. > > I would love if we could do another project whereby we create a real world, > demo app that runs on Azure or S3. > > I know almost nothing about it but I am intrigued to imagine that both my > data (my Database) and my application (my IIS Server and IIS Code) are all > running on thousands of different servers and yet never on any one > particular machine. > > If I understand it right, Azure / S3 / EC is not virtual, or even clustered > servers: it is a service that offer interfaces for running objects or > processing and storing data. > > Would we like to start a project designed with the intention of learning > cloud computing? > > I would nominate Shamil to be a Chief Scientist and CEO, I would take his > lead in all things technical, and I would suggest that us mere mortals do > the heavy lifting, IOW we do not end up forcing Shamil or Gustav to be > pushed into quietly writing the code but we do it and we share the workload > and we all learn. Shamil will guide is and assist but he will not write our > homework for us. We have to learn it ourselves. > > If we do it, I would suggest that we take it one step at a time and for the > first version, we create an application to store the just the Customers > table in the cloud. When all interested parties have built that and seen it > working really live, we can move on to Order and Products etc. Maybe > finally, we could even put in a credit card processing element, or VAT > number verification (like Gustav mentioned last year). > > I am also interested in exploring Amazons S3 and EC2 > > http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ > <http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/>http://aws.amazon.com/ > <http://aws.amazon.com/>http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ > <http://aws.amazon.com/s3/>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/ > > <http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/>What else do we need to read up on, > we actually need a program of education for the next six months. By that > time we might be telling all customers "Sql Server is the old way, nowadays > I only store data in the cloud" ;) > > BTW, I have not spoken to Shamil about this, and I hope he does not mind > me nominating him, I think that his technical leadership in our group over > so long qualifies him for this role (for this project anyway). > > Thanks to all you good friends, > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > dba-VB mailing list > dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >