WOW, what a great honor to win the Tech Ed 2007 Architecture award!
I really feel that this award illustrates the need for a .NET application tier scale out solution that doesn't rely on scaling out the user interface / web tier. Why increase the external attack surface of your infrastructure by adding additional web servers for scale, when what you really need is more application tier horse power?
And that's what the fabric is all about, creating a scalable .NET application cluster that provides automated application deployment, software based application tier load balancing and automated request fail over.
The second thing that struck me talking to the attendees from medium and small companies this year is the breath of market segments that need application tier scaling. The best line of the entire show, for me, was from a systems engineer who works at a hosting company in Jersey City that services the small & medium market - "Where have you guys been all of these years?". It doesn't matter if you're a startup with only 5 machines. You can incrementally grow your fabric from 5 to 500 on commodity hardware at your own pace.
So I think my mantra from TechEd 2007 this year is - Move your logical middle tier to the physical middle tier and scale without fail!
Finally, I certainly want to thank all of the folks over at Windows IP Pro! They got some great video of our dependability stadium-seat-sales-demo that they showed during the awards session. And I especially wanted to thank Amy, for becoming our Windows IP Pro advocate by learning and internalizing what the Enterprise Application Fabric is all about.
Until next time…
Mark
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