Preparing for my first Lunch and Learn

This was an earlier post from September when I was still posting to Tumblr.

This Thursday I present my first lunch and learn at Geneca.  It's titled "Getting your web microservice onto the cloud."  I initially wanted to title it "Creating a web microservice for practically free" but the focus was intended to be more around the cloud aspect of it rather than the entrepreneurial side of it.  Nonetheless the spirit of the talk is very much so fitted towards the entrepreneur.

The first 5 minutes gives a quick look at what "cloud" computing means to me, what the 3 different setups are (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS), and then a little bit about EC2 and Azure.  What I'm really trying to do in the part is give definition to some cloud terms and maybe talk a little about what EC2 and Azure look like physically.

From there the talk will shift into the tools I used to get a website up and running using all free tools starting with an IDE, a DVCS, a hosting account, and a db host.  I'll be highlighting the site wizard in WebMatrix for a basic shell site.  Then I'll save the code to BitBucket for source control using TortoiseHg in windows explorer and Mercurial (it helps having learned Git first to understand the process flow as they are practically identical).  Then I'll be pushing the site to AppHarbor and talk about continuous deployment.  I'm still thinking of an easy way to highlight linking MongoHQ but I'd have to switch to one of my existing web apps to show this in a meaningful capacity.