SESSION CODE: ARC-COS-MID208

Doug Bower & Bradley Smith MYOB

ARCHITECTING REAL-WORLD AZURE APPLICATIONS

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Agenda

► Who we are - where we have come from ► Architecture overview ► Stories of our experience ► Saving money with Azure (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

What is MYOB?

► Provider of business management solutions that make business life easier ► Range of products & services – accounting, payroll, CRM, ERP, websites & much more ► Over 1 million businesses in AU & NZ (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Trevor the plumber

(my step dad) ► Sole Trader ► Limited technical experience ► Rarely uses a computer (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Ray – writes software

(my uncle) ► Small business ► Travels overseas for work ► Excited by technology ► Wants his Accountant in the business (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

What is MYOB AccountRight?

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The new platform

User Interface Biz Logic Database

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The existing product – in the wild

ui biz db ui biz db ui biz db UI Biz ui biz db ui biz db DB UI ui biz db Biz Logic Database ui biz db UI ui biz db Biz ui biz db DB ui biz db ui biz db UI Biz Logic ui biz db UI Biz DB ui ui biz db biz db ui biz ui biz db db Database

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Architecture and planning

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To the cloud!

User Interface Biz Logic Database Biz Logic Database Sync

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You can’t manage what you don’t own

► Latency ► Connection type ► Bandwidth ► Machine specifications ► Weather?

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Retrying your task

► UI / Network ► Database ► True statelessness (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Chattiness and UI fidelity

User Interface Biz Logic Database Biz Logic

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Database

Chattiness and UI fidelity

User Interface Biz Logic Database Biz Logic Database

Compression

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Caching

Company A Company B Company C Company D Company E Company F Company G Company H Company I Company J (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Scalability

Controller Agent Agent Agent Agent

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Biz Logic Database

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Scalability

Number of threads: 200 Scenarios run: Tradies Duration of test: 1 hour Ramp up time: 20 min CPU Usage: - Average 40-50% - For this many threads, the ideal CPU usage would be considerably lower.

Memory Usage / Garbage Collection:

-Gen 2 (long lived objects) is relatively high -As an indicator, the lower this graph gets, the less impact garbage collection has on the health of the system.

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100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Cpu - 200 threads

Cost management with Azure

► VM Size affects performance ► Watch your databases ► Compute Emulator helps (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Summary

► Everyone will have a different journey, Embrace it ► Connectivity ► Scalability ► User Experience ► Caching (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Next steps

► “Accelerated Developer Learning” – Azure free trial ► Blogs – bing is your friend ► .NET user groups in your locale ► [email protected]

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