Node bootcamp at SURF Incubator slides

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Azure SDK for Node.js 0.5.4 is out

We just pushed out a small May update (0.5.4) to the Azure SDK for Node.js, with which we now deploy:

• node.js 0.6.17
• iisnode 0.1.19

Here are the important changes and additions in this release:

• The updated node.js version addresses the recently announced node.js security vulnerability. The vulnerability affects all server-side deployments using versions prior to 0.6.17. If you have deployed a node.js application on Azure using our tooling, you are probably using a version of node.js that is vulerable. Please redeploy your application using the updated tooling to ensure your deployment is secure.
   
• iisnode 0.1.19 brings improved configuration support using YAML files. For a lot of scenarios, you may now be able to configure your app by deploying an iisnode.yml file, instead of messy XML inside your Web.config.
  

  # The optional iisnode.yml file provides overrides of 
  # the iisnode configuration settings specified in web.config.
  
  node_env: production
  nodeProcessCommandLine: "c:\program files\nodejs\node.exe"
  nodeProcessCountPerApplication: 1
  # so on... 

• This is not completely new, but a few weeks ago we also released a refresh (0.5.3) of the npm package for Azure, adding support for accessing the Azure role service runtime. That enables you to: get role configuration settings, work with local role resources (including local storage), get information about the current role instance, as well as other role instances in your application. We have a nice example of this functionality posted here. 

Here is a one-click install of the new bits.

Future Insights Live slides

Thanks to everyone who attended my talk, here are the slides, as promised.