Last week our Sprint 2 bits went live.  We added several compelling features to our backend service, some of which will show up in the SSDS service in the upcoming Sprints.  Key features added include:

a. Full text index and search
b. Multiple B-Trees - this will allow us to deploy schemas as we move toward supporting schemas in SSDS
c. Asynch queries - this will help in exposing fanout queries across multiple containers
d. Logging and tracing improvements to help us manage and debug the service efficiently
e. Backup and restore services
f. Improvements to our Distributed Data Fabric for failover and friendly swapping between primary and secondary partitions

One of the most satisfying part of Sprint 2 deployment was how long it took us to complete deployment.  We cut the time taken to deploy and certify deployment by more than half.  Kudos to our operations team led by Kyle Patton in achieving this. 

Now on to Sprint 3.  We are half way through Sprint 3 and the go/no-go is our next big milestone for this sprint.  This is when the team will decide which improvements are looking good and will make it to deployment and which improvements we will have to postpone to the next sprint.  The long weekend was a good break for all of us as things will get quite hectic as we prepare for TechEd (decks and demos will be locked down and ready to go).  If you are at TechEd look us up as we will be presenting at the Developer as well as the IT Pro sessions.