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Monday, May 9, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Windows Azure Guidance on DeepFried
On my way to work, I just listened to a podcast of DeepFriedBytes. Check it our here: http://deepfriedbytes.com/
It was an episode about Windows Azure Guidance. This Guidance is developed by the Microsoft Patterns and Practices team and can be found here: http://wag.codeplex.com/
The podcast shortly touches the easiness of deploying your SQL to SQL Azure. The existence of the X-drive, meant for migrating legacy applications to the Cloud. Minor issue: only one worker process can write to it.
Azure has three types of storage: Table, Queue and Blobs. Table is the SQL part, Queue for the communication between the Web Role process and the Worker Role process and of course the Blobs to store files. There are samples to code against the Storage API.
Also mentioned the security model, used in Azure: Claims Based Authentication. Background to be found on Codeplex.
Just read read it and listen to it !
Friday, April 1, 2011
Jumping into Azure (links)
Azure Coding.NET
http://azurecoding.net/content/AzureDev1.aspx
MSDN: Getting started with Azure development
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsazure/dd439432
Windows Azure Management Portal
Azure Storage Explorer
http://azurestorageexplorer.codeplex.com/
Windows Azure Platform Training Course
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/wazplatformtrainingcourse.aspx
Windows Azure Platform Virtual Labs
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/dd540819
Lab | time |
90 min | |
· MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Windows Azure Services with PHP | 90 min |
· MSDN Virtual Lab: Getting Started with Windows Azure Storage | 90 min |
90 min | |
90 min |