Microsoft Student Partner – Azure Development 101

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Last week saw a new intake of Microsoft Student Partners (MSPs) converge on Microsoft UK, for a 2 day event kicking off the academic year.

During the two days the students had various presentations from people all around the business ranging from talks on Azure, Social Media, Microsoft Surface and presentation training talk from Nicolas Bate.

I had myself had been a MSP whilst I had been in my final year at university (all one year ago :p ) so one thing that I always wanted to do was give back and help out other student partners.

“Today Dom started that off with some excellent analogies and demos as to what you can use Azure for, and to be honest I’m seriously liking what I’m seeing.”

Chris Alexander (MSP)

In doing so I offered to help out by presenting / demoing to the students about my experiences developing with the Windows Azure platform, and spicing it up a little by jumping into some code (I always loved code demo’s during MSP events, so didn’t want to let the new guys down).

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During my presentation I talked around a number of subjects that I found useful when I have been developing Azure applications these include:

  • Keeping It Simple
  • Loose Coupling
  • Message Serialization
  • Logging and Tracing
  • Using GUID to track activities over servers
  • Adapting to Load
  • Idempotencey
  • Use of storage
  • Helpful tools

Hopefully these ideas along with the demo gave the students an insight into how they can develop on Azure.

For more information on student partners and upcoming student events visit Microsoft for Students by Ed Dunhill (Microsoft UK - Academic Evangelist).