Windows Azure Service Bus: publish/subscribe pattern

Posted on February 9, 2012 by MortenVG

One of my favorite speakers, Clemens Vasters, gives a speak about the publish/subscribe capabilities provided by Windows Azure Service Bus

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Real World Windows Azure Guidance Library

Posted on May 16, 2011 by MortenVG

The team behind the Windows Azure Platform are introducing a new technical library called “Real World Windows Azure Guidance“.

At the moment there’s only a single article in the library, but over time it will contain more articles written by members of the community (MVP’s and other who have hands-on experience with Azure).

Add it to you bookmark section or even better, subscribe via RSS

 

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Tip: Nice Azure Learning Entry point

Posted on May 6, 2011 by MortenVG

Buck Woody did a nice blog posting on Azure divided into relevant categories (Architecture, Storage, Compute, SQL Azure, Security etc..).

Use the “Windows Azure Learning Plan” as an entry point in your searching for Azure ressources.

 

 

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[Danish] Lovændring på vej?

Posted on April 27, 2011 by MortenVG

Datatilsynet kom for et stykke tid siden med en afgørelse omkring cloud basererede løsninger i offentlig regi. Afgørelsen er truffet på baggrund af Odenses kommunes ønske om en kommunal cloudløsning baseret på Google Apps.

Trods den nedadvendte tommelfinger fra Datatilsynet, ser det nu ud som om at Videnskabsministeriet kommer den fremsynede kommune til undsætning i form af en tværministiel arbejdsgruppe.

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Announced news from the Azure Team at MIX11

Posted on April 13, 2011 by MortenVG

Yesterday the Azure Team announced several updates to the Azure Platform at the MIX11 Conference

 

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Umbraco in the cloud

Posted on April 13, 2011 by MortenVG

This might be old news – but for me it’s not: My favorite CMS tool Umbraco now supports Azure – more info here

 

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Clouding Demystified?

Posted on April 5, 2011 by MortenVG

You definitely want to check the web app “CloudSleuth” from Compuware if you just a bit interested in Cloud availability and performance (broadly spoken so to saySmiley).

Check the availability or the response time of the different providers (MS, Google, Amazon etc). Or monitor your own cloud application! And what about Content Delivery Network? Can it improve the overall performance of your app?

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Create an azure app in less than 90 sec.

Posted on April 5, 2011 by MortenVG

Richard Parker shows you how to do a simple NoCodeDeploy2AzureApp in less than 90 seconds. You probably think “for what use”? But it actually shows you the simple workflow you will go through (more or less) whether it’s a full blown app or a demo app.

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CloudApp:Montage

Posted on March 31, 2011 by MortenVG

A funky example of a Azure Cloud App called Montage brought to you by the creative people from Microsoft FUSE lab – Check it out and made some montage yourself (as I did in a not-so-creative-moment:-))

 

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Azure For Starters #1 – The Basic Platform

Posted on March 31, 2011 by MortenVG

To boil it down to the (very) basic, the Windows Azure Platform is comprised of the following components/services:

1. Compute service This is where your service run.
It’s a virtualized 64bit Windows 2008 Server instance (or more) with IIS 7 enabled for ASP.NET web applications.
2. Storage service This is where you store unstructured data.
There are three types of storage models available: tables, blobs and queues. All three supports REST-based access.
3. SQL Azure This is where you store structured data (!). Build on the core SQL Server code base. Currently supporting up to 50 GB database.
4. Windows Azure AppFabric A platform layer (.NET Services) acting as the middleware. Can be seen as a integration backbone of the entire platform offering connectivity and message capabilities (service bus) as well as access control services for cloud service and on-premise application.

Keep in mind that you can use each technology individually or together to build up a solution running in the cloud – all depending on the actually business requirements of your application.

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