Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kenneth Jordan

Erica Sui-Ching Lan

Philip L Davidson

Daniel Doubrovkine

Marcus Andrew Taylor

Daniel Olewski

Stephen Faiks

Jason Abbatiello

Douglas Frankin

John Bowser

Techniques to enhance software production are described. An apparatus may include a processor and a memory unit to couple to the processor. The memory unit may store a software build service that when executed by the processor is operative to receive a request to subscribe to the software build service from a software development client, create a virtual software build platform to build a software application, and assign multiple build resources from a resource pool to the virtual software build platform to build the software application, with each of the multiple build resources having one or more assigned affinity relationships for build execution tasks to build the software application. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to enhance software production

The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate service deployment in a distributed computing and applications environment. A schema is provided that describes various components of a service and various topologies for execution of the services, wherein a deployment engine utilizes the schema in conjunction with user inputs to determine one or more destination locations for the service. The topologies relate to various machine and/or machine types defined for various groups or individuals that employ the service. A user interface can be provided to receive user inputs for topological selections and to facilitate various parametric configurations associated with service deployment and subsequent execution thereof.

System and method to facilitate manageable and agile deployment of services in accordance with various topologies

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Kenneth Jordan