Windows Azure CAT Recommended: FailSafe Training Availability

Our Windows Azure Customer Advisory Team (CAT) is always keen on getting more guidance out to the field and customers, drawn from the joint experiences of CAT and MCS.  A 2-day “FailSafe” training course has just landed on Channel 9 and is available.  This complements our extant content around Cloud Service Fundamentals, as well as the core platform guidance and training content.

While there are other great references and guidance bits out there, here’s a list of what we’ve been generally recommending as a baseline for customers to be familiar with before engaging in Windows Azure Architecture and Design sessions and reviews – and it has really helped in driving more productive discussions all up.

FailSafe Training  https://aka.ms/Epljgj [9 hours of design goodness!]

Cloud Service Fundamentals  https://aka.ms/azurecsf

Windows Azure Training Kit  https://bit.ly/IjTnyh

Windows Azure Videos on Channel 9:   https://aka.ms/Okootg

WebAPI -- https://bit.ly/yKGZWm , https://bit.ly/zSrIcB ,   https://bit.ly/LaqZQu , https://bit.ly/wDR7m2

(Async) ADO.NET -- https://bit.ly/166rEhN , https://bit.ly/SvsHQP

Quick blurb on FailSafe:

The mission of the FailSafe Initiative is to articulate recommendations and approaches for delivering resilient and scalable cloud architectures. FailSafe delivers general guidance on building resilient and scalable cloud architectures, guidance for implementing those architectures on Microsoft technologies generally, and scenario specific architectures that implement those architectures in context.

Developed by Microsoft Services and the Windows Azure Customer Advisory Team, this series provides both platform agnostic concepts and patterns as well as Windows Azure specific implementation guidance.

Enjoy!