April 2010 - Posts

Windows Azure Guidance – Part I in a single picture by Eugenio Pace

What’s covered in this first part of the Windows Azure Architecture Guide? Here’s a picture inspired in our previous guide style:   And remember, this is the first guide on a series that we have planned. In the next couple of weeks we will start...

Windows Azure Guidance - Additional notes on failure recovery on Windows Azure by Eugenio Pace

Things will eventually fail in your application and you need to be prepared. So most components should be designed for something going wrong and recover gracefully (or as gracefully as possible) and leaving the system in a consistent state (eventually...

Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Shane Leonard, Senior Director at Givedon by Windows Azure

0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to Shane Leonard, Senior Director at Givedon, about using the Windows Azure platform to deliver an application that helps charities raise money . Here's...

Clustered Indexes and SQL Azure by SQL Azure Team Blog

We are going to start a new series of posts focusing on the basics of SQL Azure and build on top of these to give you more detailed information about building and migrating applications to SQL Azure. Unlike SQL Server, every table in SQL Azure needs to...

Continuation Tokens in Windows Azure Tables – Back and Previous paging by Eugenio Pace

Scott has published the results of his “Continuation Token” spike, which is a critical aspect of dealing with queries against Windows Azure tables storage. His findings will make it to the guide, but you can read the essentials here . The unusual thing...

Clarification on the last drop of Windows Azure Architecture Guide by Eugenio Pace

It seems some people were somewhat confused with the guide downloads . A picture is worth 1000 words: Read More...

May the 17th-18th: WIF Workshop in Singapore by Vibro.NET

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Live in the UK and Want to Learn More About Windows Azure? Register Today For A FREE Windows Azure Self-paced Learning Course by Windows Azure

Do you live in the UK and want to learn more about Windows Azure ? Then you'll want to register today for the Windows Azure Self-paced Learning Course , a 6-week virtual technical training course developed by Microsoft Evangelists Eric Nelson and...

Windows Azure Guidance – New Code & Doc drop on CodePlex by Eugenio Pace

We are almost content complete for our first Windows Azure Architecture Guide (the most probable name for our book). Available for download today: New updated samples, including all file processing and background tasks (lot’s of small nuggets in there...

Application Infrastructure: Cloud Benefits Delivered by Windows Azure platform AppFabric Team Blog

http://www.appinfrastructure.com We would like to highlight an exciting upcoming event which brings a fresh view on the latest trends and upcoming product offerings in the Application Infrastructure space. This is a Virtual Event that focuses on bringing...

Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Matthew Davey, Founder of TicketDirect by Windows Azure

0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to Matthew Davey, Founder of TicketDirect, about using the Windows Azure platform to run the company's ticketing system. Here's what he had to...

Last Week of Parental Leave by Extemporaneous Mumblings

I have been largely offline for the last 3 weeks because I have been on parental leave ( again ).  I was lucky enough to have another baby girl last December right around Christmas.  Working for Microsoft, this means that within the first year...

New OData Service for SQL Azure Uses AppFabric by Windows Azure platform AppFabric Team Blog

In his MiX 2010 keynote , Doug Purdy announced a new service that exposes data in SQL Azure to web based clients using the OData protoco l . The new service is exciting for two reasons: 1) It can be used to publish SQL Azure data with no code, and 2)...

Introducing Microsoft TownHall, a New Windows Azure-hosted Engagement Platform by Windows Azure

0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Today at the Politics Online Conference in Washington, D.C. we launched TownHall , a new Windows Azure-hosted engagement platform that fosters, moderates and houses conversations between groups. As you may have...

Windows Azure Guidance – Background Processing III (creating files for another system) by Eugenio Pace

Last week Scott walked me through his current design for the “Integration Service” in our sample. Here’s some preview of this early thinking. As a reminder, our fictitious scenario has a process that runs every once in a while and generates flat files...
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