James Crisp

Software dev, tech, mind hacks and the occasional personal bit

Category: Cloud

Talk: Winning at HTTPS

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On October 18, 2016

In ALT.NET, Cloud, Design / Architecture, Talks, Technical

For the first time in a little while, I’ll be giving a talk at the Sydney ALT.NET user group:

HTTPS is ever more pervasive, with few sites still using plain HTTP. Want to be the guy or girl on the team who actually understands HTTPS, can set up certificates and fix issues that come up? Sometimes this is left to an ops team, but there are benefits and impacts that cannot be ignored in development.

James has migrated several sites from HTTP to HTTPS and has tips and tricks to share.

Tues 25 October from 6pm at ThoughtWorks Sydney office, Lvl8 51 Pitt St, Sydney.
RSVP on Meetup (for pizza and beer!)

You can find the slides from the night here.

Talk: Add a billion row data warehouse to your App.. with Redshift, sql and duct tape!

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On June 16, 2014

In ALT.NET, Cloud, Design / Architecture, Talks, Technical

Come along to Sydney ALT.NET for a BIG data night.

I’ll be giving a talk on Redshift:

Started to hit the point where your transactional database is not the right place for running reporting queries and experimental data science? Keen to chuck in more data from web logs, CRMs, facebook, etc so you can start learning more about your users? Come along to Sydney ALT.NET on June 24th to see an easy way to do it with AWS Redshift, mapping SQL and some simple scripting duct tape.

We also have a co-presented talk on Azure’s Hadoop implementation, HD Insights and Power BI: The Power of the Elephant in the Microsoft Cloud given by Jibin Johnson and Simon Waight from the Azure User Group.

From 6pm at ThoughtWorks Sydney office Lvl8 51 Pitt St, 24 June 14.
Remember to get your free ticket. See you there!

Azure Build and Deploy using Powershell

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On August 15, 2010

In C#, Cloud, Technical

Started working with Windows Azure? Want to have automated build and deploy, rather than clicking around in a web console or Visual Studio?

Check out the AzureBuildDeploy repository on GitHub.

I set this up for an Azure proof of concept project. It contains Powershell scripts for simple automated packaging, build and deploy, and a dummy WCF application for deployment to the cloud. The WCF application can however be easily replaced with a web application or what ever other .NET application you would like to host in the cloud.

How to use

  • Clone or download the source from http://github.com/jcrisp/AzureBuildDeploy
  • Update the $serviceName at the top of build-package-deploy.ps1
  • Update the certificate details, and subscription id at the top of deploy.ps1
  • If you plan to use SqlAzure (as in my proof of concept), update the connection details in HelloWorldService.svc.cs. If you don’t plan to use SqlAzure, just stub out the whole FindFirstGreetingUsingSqlAzure() method by returning a string.
  • Test out deployment to the cloud (run build-package-deploy.ps1). You can ensure it is working using the sample client in the repository.
  • Now you’ve got everything working, replace the dummy WCF application with whatever you want.

Notes
In my experience, the deployment of a simple application via these scripts, Visual Studio or the console takes about 16 minutes, from start of deploy to the service able to accept clients. This is extremely slow – I hope it improves!

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