http://sqlblog.com/blogs/buck_woody/archive/tags/Programming/default.aspxTags: ProgrammingenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)http://sqlblog.com/blogs/buck_woody/archive/2012/10/30/cloud-computing-just-get-started-already.aspxTue, 30 Oct 2012 14:43:27 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:45857BuckWoody1http://sqlblog.com/blogs/buck_woody/comments/45857.aspxhttp://sqlblog.com/blogs/buck_woody/commentrss.aspx?PostID=45857<p>OK - you've been hearing about "cloud" (I really dislike that term, but whatever) for over two years. You've equated it with just throwing some VM's in some vendor's datacenter - which is certainly part of it, but not the whole story. There's a whole world of - wait for it - *coding* out there that you should be working on. If you're a developer, this is just a set of servers with operating systems and the runtime layer (like.NET, Java, PHP, etc.) that you can deploy code to and have it run. It can expand in a horizontal way, allowing massive - and I really, honestly mean massive, not just marketing talk kind of scale. We see this every day.</p> <p>If you're not a developer, well, now's the time to learn. Explore a little. Try it.</p> <p>We'll help you. There's a free conference you can attend in November, and you can sign up for it now. It's all on-line, and the tools you need to code are free.</p> <p>Put down Facebook and Twitter for a minute - go sign up. Learn. Do. :)</p> <p>See you there. <a href="http://www.windowsazureconf.net/">http://www.windowsazureconf.net/</a></p><img src="http://sqlblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=45857" width="1" height="1">AzureCloud ComputingConferencesDevelopmentProgrammingWindows Azure