CONNECTING PHONE APPLICATIONS TO THE CLOUD Nick Randolph (Built to Roam) SESSION CODE: COS-WPH208 (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Agenda Phone + Cloud ► Phone / Cloud Facts ► Data – Odata – WCF Services – Blob Storage ► Notifications ► Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Mobile ≠ Connected (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Cloud ≠ High Availability (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

More Challenges ► More subscribers (data, image, video) ► Network congestion – Spectrum + cell towers + antennas ► Bandwidth caps ► High Latency – Phone  Tower  Mobile Infrastructure  Internet (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved. Mobile developers must solve these problems to delight the end user!

Supporting Millions of Connected Devices Database(s) that nobody touches Thousands of servers on commodity hardware Replicated, horizontally-scaled NoSQL databases; Data sharding using small tables for fast access Load-balancing at every tier Terabytes in an in-RAM, distributed cache MapReduce for parallel analysis of “big data”

SQL Azure is never touched by devices Scale-out Windows Azure instances as needed Wireless efficiency is realized via Web Roles that use REST + JSON WCF Services Distributed caching via AppFabric Caching Devices cache data and work offline

Case Study: Capture TechEd ► Image capture via Phone ► Upload to Blob Storage ► Tag image with TechEd Track ► Queue image for processing ► Receive tile notification of new images ► Retrieve recent images list (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

IMAGE CAPTURE demo Camera Capture Task Launchers and Choosers (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Architecture

IMAGE UPLOAD demo Blob Upload Shared Access Signatures (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Architecture

UPLOAD PROCESSING JOB demo Tracks from REST service JSON Serialisation WCF Service (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Architecture

QUEUE PROCESSING JOB demo Add Job To Queue Object serialization (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Architecture

PROCESS JOB demo Image Resizing Retrieve Job from Queue Update SQL Azure Update Blob with new Image (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Architecture

TILE NOTIFICATION demo Push Notification HTTP Post (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Architecture

RECENT IMAGES demo OData Feed (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Architecture

WAZ Toolkit for WP ► ASP.NET Membership Via Table Storage ► ACS ► Push Notifications ► Table, Blob and Queues (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved. WP and iOS available now! Android coming soon

WINDOWS AZURE TOOLKIT demo Creating New Project Overview (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

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