Quick question? What?s higher than a kite? No, it?s not me nor Cheech and Chong . It?s a cloud! Bad jokes (but funny video link) aside, Windows Azure, Microsoft?s foray into cloud computing, is getting a lot of attention right now. The basic idea behind cloud computing is you can host your application in the cloud and pay a monthly fee much like a utility such as paying for water and power. The benefit is you don?t have to deal with the infrastructure work and maintenance and you get ?elastic? scalability, meaning your application can dynamically scale to meet rising need without much work on your part. That?s the idea at least. The Saturday evening before I left for the PDC, Eilon (lead dev for ASP.NET MVC ) and I got together to try out ASP...(read more) ...
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