Last week at the MVP Summit Rainer Stropek gave a talk on using Windows Azure Web Sites as a way to create an isolation mechanism for running tenant specific code in your platform as a service (PaaS), multi-tenant solutions. Allowing your customers to provide their own code to run in your hosted solution is always a challenge just due to security precautions, concern around processing performance and more. This technique was very intriguing.
The Patterns and Practices group at Microsoft have released some updates to their Cloud based guidance projects:
Developing Multi-tenant Applications for the Cloud, 3rd Edition Moving Applications to the Cloud, 3rd Edition I was lucky enough to get some peaks at these as they were being developed. If you are looking at migrating to Windows Azure these are well worth your time to look through. They have been updated with some of the newer Windows Azure features and from feedback.
CONOG (Central Ohio Night of Gaming)
After you fill your brain to capacity during Central Ohio Day of .NET come over to the Microsoft Office to unwind, get some snacks and play some games. If you like board games, card games, dice games, or games played with small lettered tiles then this will be for you. The event is family friendly, so you can bring your spouse and kids too. The event will be open from shortly after CODODN ends (say 30 minutes after, or as soon as organizers can reach the office) till about 10 PM.