I had a great time attending The Cloud Computing Asia 2011 last week. I enjoyed sitting on the panel discussion titled “BEYOND HYPE: APPLICATIONS IN THE CLOUD TODAY”. It was good to hear views from the industry as well as share Microsoft’s vision of the cloud and its PaaS offerings – Windows Azure. The discussion was moderated by Peter Rajnik of Guard Time and he did a wonderful job.

I also presented on “Architecting for the Public and the Private Cloud” (slides embedded).

Couple of interesting observations:

• Some people still don’t get the distinction between IaaS, SaaS and PaaS.
• Analogy of the day: Just like we trust banks with our money, we can trust cloud provides with out data  (yikes!)
• Q: How to get started with Cloud Computing? Answer: Go get our free cloud account and try it out. (really?)
• Scalable vendor products == Cloud Computing (speechless!)

Architecting for the public and the private cloud

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I will be speaking at the The Cloud Computing Asia 2011 – An Executive Breakfast Briefing on 18th of August. For more details on the event please visit the event page here.

I will be presenting on "Architecting for the Public and the Private Cloud". In this talk I will cover some of the common architectural practices for building scalable services that can run on the public/private cloud. I hope its going to be an interesting discussion.

I will also be participating in a panel discussion on “Beyond Hype : Applications in the cloud”.

Architecture · Cloud · Conference · Microsoft · Singapore

I have an exciting news to share with you all. I have joined Microsoft Singapore as an Architect Evangelist. Those who know me would testify on my passion for Architecture. I have written about it, I have presented on it at various conferences and more importantly in last 5-6 years I have spent a great deal of time working as System Architect, Solutions Architect and CTO at various organizations (including start-ups and fortune 500 companies).

Now, I am super excited to be working for Microsoft after being an MVP for 7+ years. I am also really glad to be working with smart people at Microsoft in general the Singapore SUB and DPE team in particular. I realize that this is an interesting time to be in this industry when the consumerization of IT is driving innovation, cloud is no longer a dream and its becoming reality, and enterprise (as well as business) architecture is (finally) gaining traction. I am very positive that this opportunity will give me a chance to work on things that I am really passionate about.

I have one more interesting news to share with you and i intend to blog about it in next couple of weeks. So stay tuned!

Wish me luck and expect much more (and hopefully exciting content and conversations) coming your way.

Architecture · Microsoft · Singapore

I am scheduled to speak at Microsoft Tech Ed Middle East in Dubai in March 2011. My sessions are being finalized but most likely it will be around Windows Server AppFabric and WCF with focus on the enterprise development stories.

Microsoft; Dubai; Tech-Ed;

I am invited to speak at IASA (International Association of Software Architecture) Singapore’s chapter evening on 10th of Feb 2011.
I will be talking about Service Composition using Windows Azure and Windows Server AppFabric, covering composition scenarios and capabilities on Microsoft platform using Windows Server AppFabric on-premise and Windows Azure AppFabric in the cloud.

I will be sharing the slides with you after the session.

For more details and back ground information on Windows Azure AppFabric and Windows Server AppFabric please visit:-

• www.microsoft.com/appfabric/azure
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazureappfabric/
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/ee695849

AppFabric · Architecture · Azure · Singapore

I will be speaking at SGdotNet’s CTU (2nd edition) in developer track. I will be talking about Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and its Architecture tooling and how to use it to build connected systems. Expect lots of demoes and exciting conversations all around. I will share the slides later on.

Connected Systems · Microsoft · MVP · Presentation · Singapore · Ultimate · Visual Studio 2010

<DotNetBulls/>  successfully hosted PDC 2010 viewing party at Bank of America Merrill Lynch HarbourFront Center office in Singapore on 8th of November, 2010. This was a super awesome event that had a keynote delivered  by Ziriad Saibi (DPE, Director of Microsoft Singapore) that covered some of the key technologies (Mobile, Cloud, IE9, Silverlight etc.) highlighted during PDC 2010. This was followed by two break-out sessions. First one was on Windows Azure AppFabric hosted by Minfei Yan (Developer Evangelist at Microsoft Singapore. Hammad Rajjoub (Microsoft MVP and UG Lead) hosted the next session on Windows Server AppFabric. Highlights of PDC 2010, including Steve Ballmer’s key note were played after the breakouts. After this floor was opened up for questions and audience engaged with speakers and asked technical questions. Veerasivanantham Paramasivam of Bank Of America Merrill Lynch was the lucky draw winner for the ‘Xbox 360 – Guitar Hero Bundle!’. After the event dinner was served which everyone thoroughly enjoyed!

And here;s the one from Ziriad..

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Just a quick note that I will be presenting Windows Server AppFabric at a Microsoft PDC Local Launch Event (https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032464044&Culture=en-SG).  In fact I will be co-hosting this talk with Ming Fei (@mingfeiy) of Microsoft Singapore’s DPE team.

If you are interested in attending this pls feel free to give me a shout @hammadrajjoub on twitter.

I will post the slide deck some times next week.

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I will be presneting a talk on Visual Studio Architecture tools at Microsoft Singapore’s ALM Workshop on 22nd September, 2010. I believe this is not a public event so unfortunately I cant request you to join me for it.

I will be covering tools and features available in Visual Studio 2010 Utlimate eidition that allow developers and architects to

1- gain better understanding of existing code (and hence helping with improvements/enhancements),

2- design up front (for those who are lucky enough to work on green field projects)

3- and to check and validate continuously if the design == code

I am super excited as this topic is very close to my heart! I am hoping the audience will like it and I will be able to share the slides + demoes with you all.

ALM · Architecture · code · Microsoft · Session · Singapore · Visual Studio 2010

Here is the slide deck from my yesterday’s presentationat TechEd.

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