Building Web Apps for the Cloud

Modern cloud platforms are very different to traditional hosting environments, and applications need to be designed differently to take advantage of those differences. In this talk, using Azure as a reference and my own experiences with Zudio as an example, I'll explain some of the things you can do when designing, building, deploying and supporting a global web application in the cloud.

Topics include:

Partitioning sites and services across servers;
Testing applications in an as-live environment;
Routing and load-balancing for performance and stability;
Continuous deployment;
Available hosting options - Platform or Infrastructure as a Service;
Cost-cutting tips.