Tech Insights 2011

This is the first time that I have been engaged to speak in Tech Insights. This year, the event will be held at Monash University, Sunway Campus on the November 16th and 17th. Yups, that's tomorrow and the day after. I will be presenting two sessions on Windows Azure - one for each day. Both are architecture sessions (since I was specifically told to do architecture only *HeHe*)

For day 1, I will be presenting "Exploring Cloud Architectures" [Dev Track 2 - 1:30pm-2:30 pm] where I will be giving a very quick overview of Windows Azure and then dive straight into talking about how to migrate existing architectures (i.e. Monolithic, Client-Server, N-tier/3-tier, Message Bus and SOA) to Windows Azure. I will also discuss how scale-out is achieved on Windows Azure and illustrate some possible real-world hybrid architectures that leverages on Windows Azure, SQL Azure and Azure AppFabric. Finally, there will be a quick discussion on the cost and economics of leveraging Cloud solutions and also highlights on some possible architecture traps. This session will be informative for Brownfield scenarios.

On day 2, I will be presenting "Building Layered Azure Applications" [Dev Track 1 - 11:30am-12:30pm] which will feature Layered Architecture Solution Guidance (LASG) in the demos. I will be going through some key academic points on application architecture and then provide a brief explanation on the Layered Architecture design pattern (which was intentionally left out in day 1's presentation). The demo for this session will showcase how to use LASG to quickly build a simple layered application from scratch which can be deployed to both on-premise and the cloud. This session will be informative for Greenfield scenarios.

So, if you are free and are dropping by Tech Insights 2011, do attend my sessions ya. ;)