Microsoft and Win Azure cloud platform

Today, Microsoft announced that it will support the open source Node.js server-side and JavaScript development environment as a revolutionary technology for Azure cloud computing platforms. Microsoft joined the community since the Node has six months, the fundamental reason for joining, I hope Node can run better on the Windows platform in order to better user experience.

When an era of thought comes, there is no stronger force in the world than this. For the open source piece of chocolate, cloud computing is peanut butter. The world is changing. Microsoft is also turning around. Microsoft closed its doors to open source. Recently, Microsoft added two open source platforms to its Windows Azure cloud computing system and contributed to three well-known open source projects, including Node. js and Hadoop. This shows that the software industry is not a black and white binary world.

Microsoft Launches Windows Azure SDK for Node.js

In December, at the Node Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft released the Windows Azure SDK for Node.js and presented it as a demo.

Microsoft vice president Scott Guthrie stressed that Microsoft will support open source Node.js server-side JavaScript development environment. Microsoft referred to Node.js as "Node," and saw it as a very important technology for the Azure cloud computing platform.

He also pointed out that Microsoft joined the Node community for six months and has actively become a member of the Node community. Microsoft joined the main reason is that I hope Node can run better on the Windows platform.

Shirff, head of Windows Azure, said: "With Azure, we make money with computing power, storage space and network bandwidth. We want to offer more types of applications and systems." We are offering Node.js on top of Azure, Meet the needs of others, but also promote the development of our business. "

Windows Azure SDK: Simplify Azure Cloud Deploy Node Applications

Node is a JavaScript runtime. It encapsulates the GoogleV8 engine and provides JavaScript APIs to access the network and file system. Unlike other JavaScript code, it runs not on a web browser, but on the server side.

The Windows Azure SDK, which supports Node.js, can be used to simplify the process of deploying Node applications in Azure Cloud.

Developers can use the lightweight cmdlets command in the Windows PowerShell framework and in their own code editor.

The Azure Node Package Manager (NPM) module allows developers to deploy Node applications using Windows Azure Storage Services in any environment, and deploy code in the Azure Cloud using the newly integrated Cloud9 IDE.

We can expect that in the coming weeks, Azure will add some new features that integrate with the Node.js library. Now all the libraries needed for Azure development have been uploaded to the GitHub code website.

Azure and Cloud9 Marry: Developers Deploy Applications Directly to Azure Cloud

The combination of Azure and Cloud9 is a landmark milestone. It allows developers to deploy applications directly to Azure Cloud. Ruben Daniels, founder and CEO of Cloud9, said the cooperation was both exciting.

Cloud9 IDE is a JavaScript program development Web IDE built on Node.JS. It has a very fast text editor support for JS, HTML, CSS and mixed color code display. The Cloud9 IDE runs in a browser designed to allow developers to run, debug and deploy Node applications anytime, anywhere.

The IDE integrates with Azure, simplifying multiple deployment processes. The IDE itself offers many features such as syntax highlighting, NPM support, code autocomplete, testing and debugging. The Cloud9 IDE also incorporates a debugger for node.js and Google Chrome, enabling booting, pausing and stopping in the IDE, and testing and deploying your code in a cloud computing environment. With WebDAV it can also be connected to a remote workbench. The Cloud9 IDE has a plug-in system to extend existing functionality, which currently has several plug-ins bundled with the IDE.

"The cooperation between Microsoft and us is very pleasant," Daniels said in an interview. "Microsoft has started to join the open source camp and released applications through Github, which will help Microsoft and other companies to maintain good cooperation."

Both the Windows and non-Windows platform developers are delighted with the combination of Cloud9 and Azure.

Windows Azure new version supports Linux: PaaS to IaaS cloud service strategy transformation

Although Windows Azure is based on Microsoft's proprietary software, but surprisingly, the service provides developers with a variety of open source tools to facilitate developers to develop their own applications. This includes not only Node and Hadoop, but also open source languages ​​like Java and PHP. Microsoft is set to develop a new generation of Windows Azure cloud platforms in the coming months with the goal of facilitating the strategic transformation of Windows Azure's cloud services from PaaS to IaaS. The new version of Windows Azure cloud platform, the main highlight is to adjust the realization of the virtual machine Azure platform, new virtual support for Linux, user-friendly to run freely in Windows and Linux virtual machines for SQL Server and SharePoint applications. In addition, users can easily access Hadoop programs deployed in Windows Azure through a browser.

Microsoft for Windows Phone developers to provide the appropriate Windows Azure development kit and source code. Get (Ms-PL) certification can be downloaded to use. In the meantime, developers with Apache 2.0 certification can download the Web Services SDK and code using Amazon's Windows Phone at GitHub.