Speaker(s): Peter Goodman, Stefan Sewell
SOA Challenges
- Monitoring
- Service hosting and Scale-out
- Deployment
co-ordinate across multiple hosts and technologies
support repairing, patching, updating, removing
Windows Server AppFabric ("Dublin")
- WCF & WF Service Monitoring
- Workflow Service Hosting and Scale-out
- PowerShell API and IIS Manager Extensions
- Distributed Cache ("Velocity")
Monitoring
- Centralised monitoring store in SQL Server
- Configurable with support for custom events.
- Not suitable for auditing as messages may be dropped under high load.
AppFabric Event Collection Service -> AppFabric Monitoring. Data passes through staging table.
Config screen for WCF Message logging.
Workflow Service Hosting and scale-out
- workflows can be restored to any server provided they have the definition.
- InstanceLock to control access to Workflows (timeout and polling for crashed workflows)
- Out of the box support for persisting to SQL Server 2008.
Automating deployments using PowerShell
- PowerShell v2
Remote shells and remote command invocation
In Win 7 and Server 2008
Fully interoperable with .NET and COM components
Call from managed code via System.Management.Automation
Uses verb-noun pairs.
PS C:\> import-module Webadministration
Windows PowerShell ISE - Development environment
Declarative deployment
- Environment Definition
- List of servers
- Mapping of roles to servers
- Role Definition
- Deployment Engine
