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For Episode 19 of the Cloud Cover show, Steve and I discussed the importance of setting the Content-Type on your blobs in Windows Azure blob storage. This was was especially important for Silverlight clients. I mentioned that there was a way...
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I posted yesterday about a poor man’s distributed caching solution using Windows Azure queues and ASP.NET cache. I’ve got an interesting comment in twitter: My short answer is that there aren’t solutions that scale or doesn’t scale. The scalability is...
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Last week, I had the opportunity to talk with Hal and Jonathan on the PowerScripting podcast about Windows Azure. It was a fun chat - lots on Windows Azure, a bit on the WASM cmdlets and MMC , and it revealed my favorite comic book character . Listen...
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During the next couple of weeks, Southworks will be presenting together with a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company a project that we’ve developed during the last couple of months around Claims Based Federated Identity and the Cloud. Hong Choing and Ben...
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This post is a bit overdue: Steve threatened to blog it himself, so I figured I should get moving. In one of our Cloud Cover episodes, we covered how to host WCF services in Windows Azure . I showed how to host both publically accessible...
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We’ve been working during the last couple of months with Ryan Dunn and David Aiken on various things related to Windows Azure management API. One of them, released yesterday was the Windows Azure MMC v2 (read Ryan’s post about it) This version provides...
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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...
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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...
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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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Question for you: if your application has 2 “background” task to perform, do you implement this as 2 distinct workers? or as 1 worker with 2 responsibilities? Option 1 is straight forward. Option 2 requires more work, but … does it make sense? It turns...
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As described before , a-Expense static content (mainly the scanned images uploaded by users) is stored in blobs. As with many other things in life there are quite a few options when it comes to how those images are made available to users. A key design...
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Eugenio Pace
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04-14-2010
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Filed under: Azure, Windows Azure, Azure Services Platform, Architecture, Web Client, SQL Azure, patterns & practices, a-Expense, Azure Table Storage, Blob, Shared Access Signatures
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One frequent question we get is around “process guidance”. Also known by the more modern and fancy acronym “ALM”: A pplication L ifecycle M anagement, which replaced the old SDLC term, which in turn (and only if you are old enough like me) meant something...
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This new release focuses primarily on replacing the data tier with Azure Table Storage. To make things more interesting, we changed the data model in a-Expense so it now requires two different related entities: the expense report “header” (or master)...
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Available for download here , you’ll find the first step in taking a-Expense to Windows Azure. Highlights of this release are: Use of SQL Azure as the backend store for application entities (e.g. expense reports) Uses Azure storage for user profile information...
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First build of our samples is now available on CodePlex . This initial version is the “before the cloud” baseline application, so you won’t find anything related to Windows Azure here. This week we will take this simple baseline and start moving it to...