Before I waste your time, this post will be full of rumor and speculation. I can not confirm a single word in this post as being true. If you are looking for some actual technical content, please see my google reader shared items. If you want to gossip like to high school juniors the day after prom, stick around.
The Bombshell(s) at PDC
I caught this video on Channel 9 with the MSFT VP of cloud, infrastructure and services. His name is Amitabh Srivastava. He states that PDC with be the “coming out party” for his group. We have already talked here about SSDS and cloud databases. BrentO wrote up a nice review on Data Mining in the cloud. Looking at the sessions at PDC, we can see that it will be very cloud intensive. Here are a few sessions of interest to this post:
A Day in the Life of a Cloud Service Developer This session goes beyond the "Hello World" development experience and explores common tasks for serious service developers. These tasks include logging, debugging, deployment, management, and maintenance of individual services. A Lap around Cloud Services Hear about key problems that cloud computing is solving and how these services fit into the Microsoft cloud computing initiatives. Learn about the pillars of the platform, its service lifecycle, and see how they fit with both Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies. Also, hear about the services roadmap over the next few years.Architecting Services for the CloudFrom design to implementation, building a scalable, available web service is different from building other kinds of applications. This session discusses the impact that designing for the cloud has on all stages of the service lifecycle, and how the Microsoft cloud platform works for you to meet the scaling and availability goals of your service. Also learn how the cloud services platform is architected to isolate and protect your service.
A Day in the Life of a Cloud Service Developer
This session goes beyond the "Hello World" development experience and explores common tasks for serious service developers. These tasks include logging, debugging, deployment, management, and maintenance of individual services.
A Lap around Cloud Services
Hear about key problems that cloud computing is solving and how these services fit into the Microsoft cloud computing initiatives. Learn about the pillars of the platform, its service lifecycle, and see how they fit with both Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies. Also, hear about the services roadmap over the next few years.
Architecting Services for the Cloud
From design to implementation, building a scalable, available web service is different from building other kinds of applications. This session discusses the impact that designing for the cloud has on all stages of the service lifecycle, and how the Microsoft cloud platform works for you to meet the scaling and availability goals of your service. Also learn how the cloud services platform is architected to isolate and protect your service.
On top of that, there are tons of sessions on live services, Mesh, and, most relevant to us, SSDS.
The Missing Link
What is missing? Surely, Microsoft doesn’t expect developers to write a web app\service and connect to SSDS over the tubes even with SSL. The missing link is a cloud based application development platform. This has to be coming and I predict it to be announced at PDC. What remains to be seen is how the infrastructure work. I could see a shared hosting model with Windows Server 2008 VM’s on hyper-v or a “real” cloud platform that is something like .Net as a Service. Your guess is as good as mine unless you already know but are under NDA :) Both Amazon EC2 and Google AppEngine both took the service route.
I am not going to PDC but I will be watching closely. Have you heard anything confirmed or unconfirmed?
P.S. Where is the 2nd largest software vendor in this cloud thingy-ma-bobber?
Edit: an unrelated cloud OS but funny Arrington bash can be found by clicking here.
posted @ Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:40 PM by DotNetKicks.com
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