AzureHub.ru portal received an update: more content, simplified structure

Dear developers, I hasten to share good news with you. Windows Azure Development Center AzureHub.ru received an update. The structure of the portal, the main technical content was completely redesigned and new materials for developers were added.

Thanks to this, you can easily find a guide, article or advice in the updated Center that will help you in developing your cloud service. Everything new and useful on the Windows Azure platform is published here - we recommend adding the Center to your Favorites and visiting it regularly!

Now all portal content is distributed between the main blocks: Acquaintance, Development and Acquisition. In the first section “ Acquaintance”You can learn all about the Windows Azure platform, its components, key features and benefits.

In the “ Development ” section, application development specialists can find a large number of technical articles covering all aspects of the cloud platform. The section consists of the following blocks:

• Scenarios - the main scenarios of cloud projects solved using the Windows Azure platform;
• Guides and best practices - technical articles on the practical use of Windows Azure subsystems;
• Languages, platforms and development tools - technical content structured by platforms, languages ​​and frameworks, with which developers can create solutions in Windows Azure: PHP, Java, Node.js, Hadoop, Python, SharePoint and so on;
• Success stories and examples of use - descriptions of real cases of using the Windows Azure platform by companies around the world and in Russia;
• Self-study - a section devoted to laboratory work that you can study and go on your own, step by step having studied the Windows Azure platform in practice.

The “ Acquisition ” section contains all the necessary information on acquiring the power of the Windows Azure cloud platform for your project. In addition, on the portal you will find the following sections:

• Windows Azure Cloud Platform News
• Help and expert advice
• Windows Azure Video Reports from TechDays.ru
• Links to Windows Azure Expert Blogs
• List of materials recently added to the portal
• Free eBooks on Windows Azure

We are very pleased to present you the updated portal AzureHub.ru and we hope that you will find answers to all questions on the Windows Azure cloud platform on it. We will be glad to hear your feedback and suggestions for improving the portal, write to azurerus@microsoft.com .

Windows Azure Summit

I draw your attention to the fact that a large Windows Azure Summit conference will be held in Moscow on February 20 , dedicated to the Windows Azure platform from both the technical and business sides. Key topics of the conference:

• Windows Azure as a development platform: latest platform updates, core Windows Azure services.
• Scenarios for using Windows Azure: a single backend for mobile solutions, transcoding and streaming video, a backend for gaming applications, creating extensions for SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2013, integration with enterprise systems.
• Business in the cloud: approaches to determining the cost of SaaS services and their pricing, ways and channels of promotion, management of a quality level agreement (SLA), compliance with the requirements of the law on personal data.
• Cloud and Web: Web development (HTML5, jQuery, SignalR, ASP.NET MVC 4) and hosting web projects in the Windows Azure infrastructure.

We are pleased to announce that all conference reports will be broadcast online on our updated portal AzureHub.ru ! We ask you to join the broadcast on February 20 at 10-00 in order to watch the opening of the conference and subsequent reports.

Come to the Windows Azure Development Center, see you at the conference!