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

Architecture

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 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 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