Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Vmware, Inc.

Fabio A Yeon

Erik B Christensen

David S Ebbo

Stefan Harrington Pharies

Anthony J Moore

Erik B Olson

Yann Christensen

Adam Wade Smith

Suzanne Maurine Cook

Jayanth V Rajan

Anders Hejlsberg

Gopala Krishna R Kakivaya

Christopher Wellington Brumme

Michael M Magruder

Raja Krishnaswamy

David Bau

Brian LaMacchia

Lance Olson

Henry L Sanders

Julie D Bennett

Sean Edwin Trowbridge

Travis Muhlestein

James S Miller

Jonathan C Hawkins

Krzysztof J Cwalina

Seth Mitchell Demsey

Brian M Grunkemeyer

Christopher L Anderson

Shawn Patrick Burke

Loren Kohnfelder

Yung-Shin Lin

Jeffrey M Cooperstein

James H Hogg

Corina Eva Feuerstein

Robert Michael Howard

Craig T Sinclair

David S Mortenson

Caleb L Doise

Alan Geoffrey Boshier

Shajan Dasan

Manish S Prabhu

Radu Rares Palanca

Tarun Anand

Joseph L Roxe

John I McConnell

Joe Dennis Long

Ramasamy Krishnaswamy

Hany E Ramadan

Jesus Ruiz-Scougall

Daniel Takacs

Stephen James Millet

Nikhil Kothari

Gregory Darrell Fee

Scott David Guthrie

Keith W Ballinger

Mark T Anders

Bilal Alam

Susan M Warren

Manu Vasandani

Jaroslav Dunajsky

David Owen Driver

Mark A Boulter

Matt Moyer

Chirag Divyakant Kapadia

Prakash Arumugam

Yan Valerie Leshinsky

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

Luca Bolognese

Brian Keith Pepin

Jun Fang

Nicholas M Kramer

Chad W Royal

Mark W Fussell

Omri Gazitt

Michael D Volodarsky

Sreeram Nivarthi

Nithyalakshmi Sampathkumar

Daniel Dedu-Constantin

Long Zhou

Neetu Rajpal

Blaine J Dockter

William A Adams

Mark P Ashton

Subhag P Oak

Anusha Muthyampeta

Xavier Stevens

Tao Jiang

George D Fee

Kyoung Won Kwon

Dhanashree Hemachandra Adhikari

Pranav Sandeep Vaidya

Suresh Chellappan

Eryn Muetzel

Techniques for managing namespaces in a multi-cluster management (MCM) system to facilitate multi-cluster application development are provided. In one set of embodiments, a computer system executing the MCM system can create a workspace for an application being developed by a software development team of an organization, where the workspace is a logical grouping of namespaces on which the application has been or will be deployed, and where at least a subset of the namespaces can belong to different clusters of the organization. The computer system can then assign a member of the development team as a workspace administrator of the workspace, thereby enabling that development team member to perform management tasks on the workspace and its member namespaces via the MCM system (e.g., creating and adding namespaces to the workspace, setting access/image/network policies on the workspace, etc.), without help from the organization's IT staff.

Namespace management techniques for facilitating multi-cluster application development

Techniques for implementing a software-as-a-service (SaaS) infrastructure that supports flexible multi-tenancy are provided. In various embodiments, this SaaS infrastructure employs a hybrid design that can flexibly accommodate both single-tenant and multi-tenant instances of a SaaS application. Accordingly, with this infrastructure, a SaaS provider can advantageously support high levels of isolation between certain tenants of its application (as dictated by the tenants' needs and/or other criteria) while keeping the marginal cost of operating the infrastructure as low as possible.

SAAS infrastructure for flexible multi-tenancy

A framework for facilitating communication between a multi-cluster management (MCM) system and the clusters managed by the system is provided. According to one set of embodiments, the framework comprises two independent, unidirectional communications channels: a first channel (i.e., 'intent channel') that flows from the MCM system to each cluster, and a second channel (i.e., 'data sync channel') that flows from each cluster to the MCM system. Through the intent channel, the MCM system can deliver control information to each cluster for actuating management changes/operations therein in a manner that is robust against network dropouts and packet loss. Through the data sync channel, the MCM system can collect and process status information from each cluster (such as, e.g., object state transitions triggered by the control information sent via the intent channel) in a manner that can efficiently scale to support large numbers of clusters.

Communications framework for multi-cluster management systems

SaaS infrastructure for flexible multi-tenancy

Techniques are described herein that are capable of dynamically activating web applications. For instance, such applications may not be configured on a machine until requests for those applications are received by the machine. For example, upon receipt of such a request, the machine may automatically configure an application that is identified by the request on the machine. The machine may then forward the request to the application for processing. In another example, the machine may run an application-agnostic worker process (AAWP), which configures an application on the machine upon receipt of a request for the application. An AAWP is a worker process that is capable of processing requests for web application(s) that are not previously associated with the AAWP. The AAWP may cause a specified worker process to run on the machine, so that the specified worker process may process the request and/or subsequent requests for the application.

Dynamic activation of web applications

Profiles hold cache settings externally from a requesting resource. The external cache settings stored within a profile may be associated with one or more resources. This allows the external cache settings for a group of resources to be managed from one location rather than having to change the internal cache settings for each resource. When a resource is processed by the server, the external cache settings are obtained from a cache profile and applied to the requesting resource. The external cache settings may also be merged with any internal resource settings. As a result of merging the settings some of the external cache settings and/or some of the internal cache settings may be overridden.

Configuration profiles for output cached pages

An application program interface (API) provides a set of functions for application developers who build Web applications on Microsoft Corporation's .NET&#x2122; platform.

Application program interface for network software platform

Computing system and method for allowing plurality of applications written in different programming languages to communicate and request resources or services via a common language runtime layer

An application program interface (API) provides a set of functions, including a set of base classes and types that are used in substantially all applications accessing the API, for application developers who build Web applications on Microsoft Corporation's .NET&#x2122; platform.

An application program interface includes a first class to provide information regarding a current HTTP request. The application program interface also includes a second class to manage HTTP output to a client and an object to provide access to server-side utilities and processes. Particular application program interfaces include additional classes to manipulate cookies, handle file transfers, provide exception information, or control operation of an output cache.

Application program interface that enables communication for a network software platform

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Fabio A Yeon