Elastic Scaling on Windows Azure
So you've spent the last few months building the next killer website, have you given much thought to your success? Specifically, have you thought about how your Cloud Services are going to respond to the load generated by your success? Azure has always provided the ability to scale your resources up or down, aka elastic scale, but do you actually know how to accomplish this? Automatically? Take this course to understand the core concepts surrounding elastic scale, and learn how you can use Enterprise Library 5's Autoscaling Application Block to automate your scaling in response to demand, without blowing out your budget.
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Scaling Fundamentals |
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00:13:14 | |
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Introduction
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01:39 | |
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Scaling Concepts
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00:48 | |
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What can be scaled on Azure?
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04:46 | |
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What is elastic scale?
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01:42 | |
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Scaling vs. Throttling
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00:49 | |
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Elastic Scale The Manual Way
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01:13 | |
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Automating Elastic Scale
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01:50 | |
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Summary
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00:27 | |
Elastic Scale with WASABi |
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00:34:15 | |
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Introduction
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00:39 | |
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WASABi Overview
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05:14 | |
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Key Components in Autoscaler
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00:56 | |
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Hosting WASABi
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07:45 | |
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Service Information Store
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02:20 | |
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Understanding Rules
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00:55 | |
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Constraint Autoscaling Rules
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02:37 | |
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Reactive Autoscaling Rules
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04:07 | |
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Operands
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02:23 | |
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Rule Evaluation
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01:58 | |
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Enabling Notifications
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02:35 | |
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Scaling by Clock Hours
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01:58 | |
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Summary
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00:48 | |
WASABi in Action |
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00:43:31 | |
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Introduction
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00:25 | |
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WASABi Requirements
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00:23 | |
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Creating a Management Certificate
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02:16 | |
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Demo Creating a Certificate
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05:55 | |
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Hosting Sample Overview
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02:27 | |
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Demo Hosting in a Console App
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04:08 | |
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Demo Editing Application Configuration
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03:44 | |
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Demo Editing SMTP Settings
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00:47 | |
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Demo Creating a Service Information Store
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06:34 | |
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Demo Creating a Rules Store
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08:11 | |
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Demo Running the Console Host
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01:14 | |
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Demo Hosting in Worker Role
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03:55 | |
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Demo Deploying the Management Cert
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02:09 | |
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Emulator Limitations
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00:52 | |
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Summary
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00:31 | |
Extending WASABi |
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00:24:42 | |
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Introduction
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00:21 | |
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Custom Operands
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05:24 | |
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Demo Custom Operands
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07:25 | |
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Custom Actions
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04:13 | |
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Demo Custom Actions
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06:00 | |
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Other Extensibility Points
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00:33 | |
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Summary
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00:46 |
Scaling Fundamentals