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Announcing Native Windows Azure Libraries and Special Free Pricing Using SendGrid for Windows Azure Customers
Last week our friends over at SendGrid shipped new native libraries on GitHub (C#, Node.JS) for Windows Azure developers that make it extremely easy to integrate their mail service into any application built and running in Windows Azure. In addition, SendGrid launched a new offer for Windows Azure customers that provides 25,000 free emails a month! We’ve heard from customers consistently that sending email was too hard and we listened! See detailed, step by step tutorials
CodeMash 2012 Recap
Now that CodeMash is over, it’s about time that I deposited information about my experiences at CodeMash 2012 here. This was my third time at this event that always offers great sessions, workshops, discussions, fun, and bacon. I am honored to have again been given the chance to speak at CodeMash. I co-presented the Software Craftsmanship precompiler workshops with Steve Smith for the 3rd year running. This year, we broke our day-long workshop into 2 sections: one beginner session and one inte
Windows Azure and Cloud9 IDE at Node Summit
Last month we launched our new Windows Azure SDK for Node.js. The release came after months of hard work between Microsoft and Joyent. Since that time we’ve seen a lot of excitement in the Node community around the support for Node.js in Windows Azure. We’re thankful for all the support! Today at the Node Summit in San Franciso, Scott Guthrie demonstrated the SDK, which provides a streamlined experience for Windows developers to build and deploy Node.js apps to Windows Azure using Po
Announcing SQL Azure Import/Export Service Now in Production
We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Azure Import/Export! Now available as a production service, SQL Azure Import/Export helps organizations deploy on-premises databases to SQL Azure, and archive SQL Azure and SQL Server databases to Windows Azure Storage. Key improvements in the new production release include: Increased performance & resiliency Progress reporting Selective Export Production support New usage sample EXE This service is provided free of charge to
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Hakin9 Extra Magazine
Dear Azure Users, Hakin9 Extra Magazine is looking for people whou would like to contribute to the forthcoming issue concerning Honeypots/Honeynets. Please, drop me a line or two if you are…Continue
Started by Michael Wiśniewski in General discussions on Monday.
The end of this User Group (and what to do about it) 2 Replies
You may have noticed that this group has not had a meeting in quite a while. Essentialy the group is now defunct. Do not despair, however. There is a new group that has started up recently. The…Continue
Started by Bill Zack in General discussions. Last reply by Sean Kidd Jul 12, 2011.
Azure Solutions Architect Needed (can be located in Dallas or nationally) 1 Reply
Thank you for taking the time to read this. Please let me know if you or anyone you know would be intersted in discussing further. Client Overview:Our client was founded in 2008 by Microsoft veterans…Continue
Started by Justin Bloom in General discussions. Last reply by Sean Kidd Jun 23, 2011.
Great read for starters 1 Reply
In the process of learning Azure from inside out I found this read somewhere on the web not sure how I reached this(alologies) but has been sitting on my drive for a few days. This is a collection of…Continue
Started by Sujeet V in General discussions. Last reply by Sean Kidd Jun 23, 2011.
Dynamic scaling solution for Windows Azure
AzureWatch can start monitoring and automatically scaling your Azure applications in under 10 minutes flat and without any modifications to your code.We are…Continue
Started by Igor Papirov in General discussions Nov 11, 2010.
How To's (Videos)
How Do I: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query in SQL Azure?
This video demonstrates how you can troubleshoot and optimize queries in SQL Azure. The sample demonstrates the use of Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) to discover the poor performing queries.How Do I: Work with Spatial Data in SQL Azure?
This video demonstrates how you can work with spatial data in SQL Azure. SQL Server 2008 supports two types of spatial data types- the geometry data type and the geography data type. These types support the methods and properties that allow the creation, comparison, analysis, and retrieval of spatial data.How Do I: Work with Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket?
This video demonstrates how you can work with Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket. The sample creates a Windows Console application that retrieves data from the Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket cloud service.Azure Monitoring and Diagnostics
In this screencast, we'll look at configuring Azure diagnostics, getting performance counter information, and even configuring the Azure applications using PowerShell.Scaling Down Azure Roles
In this screencast, we'll demo how to get the most out of a web or worker role by multithreading. By using a simple but robust threading framework, each role instance can do more. This approach saves on hosting costs by consolidating resources.Deploying Windows Azure Applications
In this screencast, we'll look at deploying a Windows Azure application, including deploying from a storage account, and comparing the staging and production slots.Understanding the ServiceConfiguration File
In this screencast, we'll dive into the ServiceConfiguration and web.config files, and how to manage both effectively in the cloud.How Do I: Deploy my first Azure application: Step-by-Step?
In this video, Max Adams will deploy a new Windows Azure Web Role Application to the Cloud in Azure Platform., Creating a new Azure Storage Service for the application’s data access, Creating a new Azure Hosted Application Service, Configuring and publishing the Web Role Application’s package and configuration, Deploying the application to Azure Staging and Production environments.How Do I: Monitor Azure applications by persisting diagnostics data to Azure Storage?
In this video, Max Adams demonstrates how to add Trace diagnostics to an Azure application and then persist those logs to Azure storage.Included in the video:
- Create a Cloud application with a Web role and a Worker role, and configure them to use Diagnostics.
- Demonstrate how to create diagnostics messages
- Demonstrate how to persist the diagnostics to Azure storage
How Do I: Introducing the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network?
In this video, Max Adams will introduce the Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN). This technology is designed to mitigate the problem of latency or lag when streaming large content from the Azure Blob container for a particular Azure application. The CDN, once enabled, will cache the Blob Container on edge CDN servers located all over the globe, and applications that use the CDN endpoint will automatically redirect to a cached version of Blob content.Blog Posts
Managing APIs and SOA solutions in Windiows Azure
How do you manage APIs and SOA services in Windows Azure? Nevatech Sentinet™ platform provides unified design- and run-time SOA management infrastructure and tools with the focus on Microsoft technology and Windows Azure… Continue
Posted by Andrew Slivker on November 4, 2011 at 8:32am
Windows Azure - Custom Diagnostics and Logging with Loggly
Let me state the obvious, for any application you develop you need to log information, errors, exceptions etc that can help you and others know what’s going on with your application
When you create a new Windows Azure application using Visual Studio you will find the following snippet in your configuration file
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Continue Posted by Allan Rwakatungu on August 2, 2011 at 12:14pm
Microsoft Azure App Fabric Caching Service Simplified and Detailed out
Cennest Technologies is a Microsoft Cloud Essentials Partner focusing on development and Migration of .NET applications to the Cloud.
Keeping a close eye on Azure developments , a very important release in the MIX 2011 conference which is bound to have a big impact in the way applications are architected/ migrated in the future is the App fabric caching…
ContinuePosted by Anshulee Asthana on April 19, 2011 at 1:27am — 4 Comments
Private Cloud: Outsource or In-source?
In my last blog post, I wrote about some of the trade offs between a public cloud or private cloud.
Once a decision is made to go with a private cloud computing solution, the next decision is whether to outsource with private cloud…
ContinuePosted by Online Tech on March 4, 2011 at 12:02pm — 1 Comment
Best Practices for Building Reliable SQL Azure Database Client Applications
This solution was implemented as a fully reusable framework for dealing with connection loss and failed SQL commands due to terminated sessions between a client application and a SQL Azure database.
ref:…
ContinuePosted by Paul.Sorvik on June 30, 2010 at 12:18pm
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