Next up was David Aiken, who’s a platform development evangelist for Microsoft. His talk was on instrumenting your applications for operations.
He started off with why you want to instrument your application. How do you know if your application is working or is not working? Instrumentation answers this question. Adding instrumentation means adding events that provide good diagnostic and resolution information to operations staff and Enterprise Management Applications. David would like to see the usage of the Windows Application Log for the destination of these events.
If yesterday was mostly about Agile, then today is definitely going to be about Software Factories from the P&P group. The keynote speaker for today is Jack Greenfield an Architect at Microsoft. His talk was over the theory of the software factories, what they are, and why we should care.
Software Factories deal with the challenge of using the general purpose platform (.NET and the tools like VS.Net, etc.) to reach your unique solution requirements.
Well, today is the last day of the Summit. It’s about 15 minutes before the keynote for the day. I wanted to post the location of the Open Source in the Enterprise webcast that they recorded last night. I had skipped it so I could take the tour of the P&P office, so I’ll watch it later.
I hope you have enjoyed my correspondence about the summit. I apologize about the probably horrible grammer and tense over the last few days.