How can a company's applications be scalable and have high availability? To achieve this, along with developing the applications, you must also have an infrastructure that can support them. For example, you may need to add servers or increase the capacities of existing ones, have redundant hardware, add logic to the application to handle distributed computing, and add logic for failovers. You have to do this even if an application is in high demand for only short periods of time. Life becomes even more complicated (and expensive) when you start to consider issues such as network latency and security boundaries. The cloud offers a solution to this dilemma. The cloud is made up of interconnected servers located in various data centers. However, you see what appears to be a centralized location that someone else hosts and manages. By shifting the responsibility of maintaining an infrastructure to someone else, you're free to concentrate on what matters most: the application. If the cloud has data centers in different geographical areas, you can move your content closer to the people who are using it most. If an application is heavily used in Asia, have an instance running in a data center located there. This kind of flexibility may not be available to you if you have to own all the hardware. Another advantage to the cloud is that it's a pay as you go proposition. If you don't need it, you don't have to pay for it. When demand is high, you can scale up, and when demand is low, you can scale back. Yes, by moving applications to the cloud, you're giving up some control and autonomy, but you're also going to benefit from reduced costs, increased flexibility, and scalable computation and storage. The Windows Azure Architecture Guide shows you how to do this.

Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Microsoft Azure™ Platform (Patterns & Practices)

Computers & Technology

Betts, Dominic

Dunn, Ryan

Woloski, Matias

Pace, Eugenio

Densmore, Scott

Narumoto, Masashi

Networking & Cloud Computing

Microsoft Press

This book is the second volume in a planned series about Windows Azure technology platform. Volume 1, Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Windows Azure Platform, provides an introduction to Windows Azure, discusses the cost model and application life cycle management for cloud-based applications, and describes how to migrate an existing ASP.NET application to the cloud. This book demonstrates how you can create from scratch a multi-tenant, Software as a Service (SaaS) application to run in the cloud by using the latest versions of the Windows Azure tools and the latest features of the Windows Azure platform. The book is intended for any architect, developer, or information technology (IT) professional who designs, builds, or operates applications and services that run on or interact with the cloud. Although applications do not need to be based on the Microsoft Windows® operating system to work in Windows Azure, this book is written for people who work with Windows-based systems. You should be familiar with the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual Studio® development system, ASP.NET MVC, and Microsoft Visual C#® development tool.

Developing Applications for the Cloud on the Windows Azure Platform

Programming

Microsoft Pr

If you want to hear the real ghost stories of Savannah, you’ve come to the right place! Join Paranormal Investigator Ryan Dunn and his team, the Savannah Ghost Research Society, as they investigate the ghosts, histories, legends, and myths of one of the most haunted cities in the country. Read about eyewitness and personal accounts of people being attacked by ghosts, spirits that are not at rest, and places that continue to house the undead. Find out whether there is any truth to the story that people were buried alive at the Colonial Park Cemetery. Is the spirit of Dr. Brown “walled up” at a residence on West Oglethorpe Avenue, still grieving over the death of his family? Discover why people leave the Amethyst Inn in the middle of the night. Visit with poltergeists at the Chart House Restaurant at Bay and River Streets. Review the compelling factual evidence gathered by the team and then decide for yourself whether you’re brave enough to tour Savannah’s ghostly markers.

Savannah's Afterlife: True Tales of a Paranormal Investigator: True Tales of a Paranormal Investigator

History

Americas

Schiffer

Paranormal investigator Ryan Dunn and his Savannah Ghost Research Society return with a new collection of investigations and ghostly hotspots in their second book on Savannah hauntings. Were people really forced into piracy at the Pirate's House? Why did Matilda Sorrel jump to her death at the Sorrel Weed House? Who is the child spirit at the Marshall House Hotel, biting people in their sleep? Why did one home require a Catholic priest to perform an exorcism? Go along with the team as they sift through historical evidence at the Georgia Historic Society, separating fact from fiction, and read about their overnight encounters. This authoritative read will take you from Savannah's earliest settlers to present day, and you may find some of those earliest settlers refusing to remain in their own time.

Savannah's Afterlife II: More True Tales of a Paranormal Investigator

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Viva La Bam

Margera, Bam

Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)

Paramount Home Entertainment (firm)

Miller, Troy

Himself, Raab

Dicamillo, Brandon

Yohn, Rake

MTV Networks

Mtv Home Entertainment (firm)

Paramount Home Entertainment

Cultivate a Proactive & Efficient Learning by Doing Culture In Teacher Development Do your teachers have the expertise to produce the best outcomes in every context? Do they confidently and intentionally inquire, adapt, and change based on student needs? This book offers a deep exploration into cultivating a culture of design thinking--a proactive process where teachers work through iterative design cycles and understand how to make 'what works best' work. <ul> <li style="margin: 14pt 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">Explore how specific design and leadership approaches can form a framework for leading teacher professional learning</li> </ul> <ul> <li style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Learn to navigate through complex educational environments</li> </ul> <ul> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.5in;">Learn from illustrative action items, vignettes, and real-life examples and results</li> </ul>

Developing Teaching Expertise: A Guide to Adaptive Professional Learning Design

Education & Teaching

HATTIE, JOHN

Schools & Teaching

Corwin

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