I'm writing this from Gate D26 at the Las Vegas airport waiting to catch a flight back to Seattle.  It's been a crazy week here at MIX but an exciting one!  The project I've been working on, SQL Server Data Services, was announced this week as a beta and everyone on the team has really been working full tilt to try to get the service out there for everyone to use.  As a dev this is that time you always enjoy the most.  Getting something shipped (even if it is for beta) and then getting others to use it. 

It's been a wild, but fun, ride thus far and I know that I, as well the entire team, are really looking forward to feedback from the community on our service and on how they plan to use it.  So, please do share your thoughts on any of the material that you've seen posted. 

In addition to the talks that we gave at MIX (which I've listed below) we will be posting the hands on lab materials that we created for MIX to our site so that even if you didn't get the chance to make it to Vegas you can still get some experience with the service.

MIX Talks

Nigel's intro/overview of SSDS

My talk (along with Jason Hunter) on patterns that one can use while developing with SQL Server Data Services

Isvtan's whiteboard discussion of SQL Server Data Services

Here's some other resources to keep an eye relative to SQL Server Data Services:

Our team blog (The long term store cast).

Dave's interview on Channel9

In the mean time please do share (with what information you have) what your thoughts are on the service.  I would (as would the rest of the team) love to hear the feedback on things like the API surface area, protocols that are important to you, etc. 

Til Next Time!

--Jeff--