Christopher Schipper is a .Net technologist with over 15 years of software development experience. He focuses primarily on the latest Microsoft technologies. Chris works as a Systems Architect at Teleplan International, building and supporting their multinational, multi-client software infrastructure. He was a key contributor in the development of Shari’s Berries (berries.com) e-commerce outlet, as an e-commerce architect and network engineer covering everything from the mouse to the FedEx truck. He has also served in the government and the US Navy. Many of his web development works have earned him all of the Dottie awards, Internet Retailer’s Top 50 award, Webby award and numerous Golden Web Awards. Chris was also a congressional nominee to the Naval Academy at Annapolis.

Chris studied Psychology at Columbia College and Electronics Engineering in the US Navy.

Dec 29 2009
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Jan 26 2009
Speaker: Bruno Terkaly
Topic: Windows Azure - Building Hybrid Cloud Applications

This presentation addresses the architecture of Hybrid Cloud Applications using the Service Bus, SQL Azure, Windows Azure, and on-premise applications. As a developer, what are the things you need to know to intelligently build scalable applications that are geographically dispersed, with parts of the applications residing on-premise, some in the cloud, often spanning multiple networks?

Big companies are now taking a close look at the cloud. Today’s developers need to be aware of what the cloud offers and more importantly how to architect applications that span both the cloud and on-premise scenarios.

This session will cover how you can leverage your existing code to take your applications to the next level. You will learn about how security is handled and how you can get 2 computers to communicate through different firewalls and NAT devices, a seemingly simple yet extremely difficult task. Other questions being answered are: (1) What are the limits of SQL Azure and when should Azure Table Objects be used? (2) How does Access Control work with the Service Bus and what is the AppFabric? (3) What role does the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform Web Portal play? (4) How do you run web facing portals versus background asynchronous processing? (5) How would you migrate the famous "Dinner Now" application and port it to the cloud? (6) What is SQL Azure and how does it work?