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SQL Server Data Services - SSDS - New version of LitwareHR

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Today, in his keynote, Ray Ozzie announced a new "cloud service" available from Microsoft: SQL Server Data Services (code name: Stika). It's a good that he announced it, because now I'm out of quarantine and I can talk about it :-).

For the last 2 months I've been working very closely with the SSDS team, understanding and exploring how their technology can be applied in the context of the work we do: (business) software delivered as a service. I've been playing the role of an ISV designing and creating solutions using SSDS. My playground has been, of course, LitwareHR: our reference application for and S+S app.

LitwareHR today looks like this:

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LitwareHR on SSDS, looks like this:

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Same client experiences (Web Client, Rich Client, APIs), same business logic exposed through WCF, completely new storage.

My team's job was to redesign Litware's (multi-tenant) data access layer to use SSDS, adapting it to the new application model. It's been a great and fun exercise, with lots of learning. 

If you are attending MIX08, Nigel Ellis (one of SSDS architects) will be delivering a session on SSDS on Thursday 6th at 8:30am in the Delfino 4005 Room, and guess what: one of his demos is Litware!

(Session recording as well as slides will be available within 24 hours at https://sessions.visitmix.com)

Ryan Dunn has more details on the beta program for the service: https://dunnry.com/blog/IntroducingSQLServerDataServices.aspx 

I'll be in Belgium (TechDays) and Hungary in the following weeks, and I plan to share and show more details there.

I will also post more details of LitwareHR on SSDS as I find the time to do so. Lot's of flying ahead of me, and great thing than Windows Live Writer works offline ;-). The beauty of Software and Services.

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  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    PingBack from http://codebandit.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/the-birth-of-the-web-vnext/

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    I have seen the future and it’s in the clouds . The day I have been waiting for more than a decade has

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    SQL Server Data Services a été annoncé au MIX 08. SSDS est un ensemble de services Web pour le stockage

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Wednesday March 5th, Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas. Endless crowds are trying to get into the keynote room

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Wednesday March 5th, Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas. Endless crowds are trying to get into the keynote room

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Tra le tantissime novità annunciate al MIX 08 ( per chi volesse vedere le sessioni dell'evento http://sessions.visitmix.com/

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Tra le tantissime novità annunciate al MIX 08 ( per chi volesse vedere le sessioni dell'evento http://sessions.visitmix.com/

  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2008
    Tra le tantissime novità annunciate al MIX 08 ( per chi volesse vedere le sessioni dell'evento http://sessions.visitmix.com/

  • Anonymous
    March 15, 2008
    If you saw Nigel Ellis' " Introduction to SQL Server Data Services " presentation at MIX08, you will

  • Anonymous
    March 23, 2008
    SOA/Service Bus/Design Patterns/SaaS Ayende - NServiceBus Review Ayende - NServiceBus Distributor Review

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2008
    Microsoft Architecture Strategy Team has just shipped a new version of their LitwareHR Sample Application

  • Anonymous
    June 16, 2008
    As many of you know, Microsoft has been working on a new version of LitwareHR that uses SQL Server Data

  • Anonymous
    June 17, 2008
    Zoals een aantal van jullie wellicht weten is Microsoft bezig geweest met een nieuwe versie van LitwareHR