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Presentation on Windows Azure Brokered Messaging
I did a presentation on Windows Azure Brokered Messaging at the San Francisco Bay Area Azure Developers group – which meets monthly in Microsoft San Francisco. The presentation was based on a post I...
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MongoDB, Windows Azure (and Node.js)
The Windows Azure ecosystem is being extended both by Microsoft and by third-party providers. This post focuses on one of these extensions – the MongoDB document database. It shows how MongoDB can be...
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Node.js, Windows Azure (and socket.io)
The Windows Azure Platform now supports various application-hosting environments including: .NET Java PHP Node.js .NET has always been the primary development environment for Windows Azure. Java and...
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Patterns & Practices Books on Windows Azure
Getting Started with Windows Azure The Windows Azure Platform is Microsoft’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud service. The best way to start Windows Azure development is to: Sign up for a free trial...
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Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration
Late last year I was looking for information on Silverlight and Windows Azure and came across a RAW (preview) eBook named Microsoft Silverlight 4 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration written by...
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Affinity Groups in Windows Azure
Windows Azure Datacenters Microsoft has built out 8 Windows Azure datacenters in 3 geographical regions across the World. They are located in: North America North Central US South Central US East US...
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Overview of the Windows Azure Platform
In my day job at Satory Global I spend a lot of time educating people about the Windows Azure Platform and helping them develop applications on the platform. In my book, the Microsoft Windows Azure...
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Windows Azure Cloud Services and Virtual Networks
Windows Azure has historically been a pure PaaS solution with the deployment unit for compute being a hosted service comprising an optional web role and zero or more worker roles. Each role is deployed...
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In-Person Event: Windows Azure HDInsight Service
I’m presenting at a Windows Azure, Big Data and Windows Azure HDInsight Service event. The invitation is (mostly) as follows: Microsoft would like to extend an invitation to attend the Microsoft Cloud...
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Cassandra with a Hint of Azure
Apache Cassandra is a highly-scalable, NoSQL, distributed database system. It achieves high scale by distributing data symmetrically among all the compute nodes in a cluster. In performance testing a...
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Building Resilient, High-Scale Services in Windows Azure
I seem to be always looking for information about building resilient, high-scale services in Windows Azure. Over the last year a number of individuals and teams at Microsoft have done us all a great...
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Setting an Endpoint ACL on a Windows Azure VM
A few days ago someone asked for help with a Windows Azure Service Management REST API problem. My first thought was that there was likely a problem with the payload, which can be a fairly complex XML...
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Configuring Windows Azure Diagnostics in Eclipse
The Windows Azure Developer Center provides downloads and documentation supporting the creation of Windows Azure PaaS cloud services in various environments and languages including Node.js, Java, PHP,...
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Semantic Logging Application Block (SLAB)
The use of elastically-scalable cloud services makes it more important than ever that service be monitored appropriately so that diagnostic information is available when needed. This can be seen in the...
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Introduction to Windows Azure Media Services
Windows Azure Media Services (WAMS) is a PaaS offering that makes it easy to ingest media assets, encode them and then perform on-demand streaming or downloads of the resulting videos. The WAMS team...
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Windows Azure Developer Camps in Northern California
Satory Global is conducting two free one-day, instructor-led training events in the Windows Azure Developer Camps series put on by Microsoft. These events provide a great opportunity to get started...
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Silicon Valley Code Camp–Windows Azure IaaS Presentation
The Silicon Valley Code Camp, organized by Peter Kellner (@pkellner), takes place in the first weekend in October each year in the nice environment of the Foothills College campus. This year, 4492...
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Queries in the Windows Azure Storage Client Library v2.1
Windows Azure Storage has been a core part of the Windows Azure Platform since the public preview in 2008. It supports three storage features: Blobs, Queues and Tables. The Blob Service provides...
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Windows Azure Training Events– San Francisco Bay Area
In March and April 2014, Satory Global is hosting several Developer Camps focused on Windows Azure and Modern apps. These are in San Francisco, CA and Sunnyvale, CA. The camps are a mixture of...
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Cassandra with a Hint of Azure
Apache Cassandra is a highly-scalable, NoSQL, distributed database system. It achieves high scale by distributing data symmetrically among all the compute nodes in a cluster. In performance testing a...
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