Today we launched the Windows Server 2008 R2 Learning Centers on Channel9 – congrats to the team! There’s great content on there including labs, videos, presentations etc covering a wide range of topics from performance and efficiency to extensibility.
Learn deployment, scale and extensibility
As a web developer, there are some lessons that of particular interest to me that teach me how to deploy and scale my web application and make sure it’s running lightning quick. All this is covered in the “Extensible Web Platform” lesson.
Give your native code apps an API just like web apps
Also, I often want to create APIs for my web applications that allow other developers to interact with it and help create a rich ecosystem of apps that add value on top of my platform (think Twitter). We’ve already showed you how you can do this using REST APIs (check out the Web App Toolkit for REST Services). The Extreme Web Services course shows you how you can now do the same for your native code applications built in C++ etc.
Need Scale? There’s an extension for that!
If you need ultimate scale for your web applications be sure to check out the free extension called Application Routing Request which allows administrators to optimize resource utilization for application servers to reduce management costs for Web server farms and shared hosting environments. Check out the blog post from the product team and see how Inernap are using it today to cut costs whilst improving scale and reporting.