In this article, I will help you writing your own WordCount Hadoop Job and then deploy it to Windows Azure Cluster for further processing. Let’s create Java code file as “AvkashWordCount.java” as below: package...

In this section we will run the same 10GB sorting Hadoop job with TERASORT option. With TeraSort option the parameters are changed as below: With above parameters couple of things to remember: You must have /example/data/10GB-sort-input...

This example consists of the 3 map/reduce applications that Owen O'Malley and Arun Murthy used win the annual general purpose (daytona) terabyte sort benchmark @ sortbenchmark.org . This sample is part of prebuilt package in your Hadoop on Azure portal...

When you are running Apache Hadoop job in Windows Azure, you have ability to remote into the main node (It is a virtual machine) and then perform all the regular tasks i.e.: Hadoop Map/Reduce Job Administration HDFS management Regular Name...

In this example I am starting a new Hadoop Job with few intentional errors to understand the processing better. You can go to Samples and deploy the Wordcount sample job to your cluster. Verify all the parameters and then you can start the job as below...

Once you have created a cluster in Windows Azure, you will have a few prebuilt samples provided in your account so let’s select “Samples” as below: In the Hadoop Samples gallery lets select “Pi Estimator” sample...

Once you have applied for Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure CTP account you can create a new cluster using this information. If you want to learn more about Hadoop on Azure CTP, visit my previous blog here . After you have got Hadoop on Azure CTP...

Windows Azure Cloud Services Newly Designed Windows Azure Developer Center Article Tutorial: Running a Python Web Application in Windows Azure Article Tutorial: Running the Mongoose Web Server in Windows Azure...

If you have a requirement and decided to modify VM registry keys, you have two options: Do it from a Standalone Startup task This modification will be completed even before your role start Be sure to run the startup task as in elevated mode...

Windows Azure team created a detailed hands on lab to help everyone who wants to move their application to Windows Azure cloud. Each of the Hands-On Labs is separate and stand-alone so you can choose which ones you want to use, and you can work through...

Map of the book: What is this book about: An Introduction to Claims explains what a claim is and provides general rules on what makes good claims and how to incorporate them into your application. It’s probably a good idea that you read...

What is Hadoop Streaming: Start learning about Hadoop Streaming: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/streaming.html Prepare yourself with F# and General MapReduce code: Exploring MapReduce with F# http://weblogs...

Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java, December 2011 CTP is now available for public download at http://dl.windowsazure.com/eclipse . The December CTP is a major update to the Eclipse tooling that was last released last June. It introduces a number...

Windows Azure Service Team is proud to announce that the first public CTP of Service Bus EAI & EDI is now LIVE at http://portal.appfabriclabs.com . You can see the official announcement here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011...

At this point Windows Azure Table Storage does not support natively storing decimal point data as described in the below supported property types which is a subset of data types defined by the ADO.NET Data Services specification: ADO...

When you decide to write a new Web Application to host on Windows Azure or decided to migrated to Windows Azure, the following resources will help you immensely: 1. Prepare yourself with necessary hands on labs and training: Please download Windows...

Today Microsoft officially announce the release of Apache Hadoop Services for Windows Azure in Developer Preview mode. BigData has arrived as an elastic service on Azure and the team is thrilled by the opportunities that lie ahead for on premise and public...

There are couple of things you could do while planning to run MATLAB on Windows Azure. Here i will provide a few resources to get your started. I am also working on a Windows Azure SDK 1.6 and MATLAB Runtime 7.1 installer based sample also, which I will...

Learn more about Windows Azure SDK announcement: - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/avkashchauhan/archive/2011/12/12/new-windows-azure-management-portal-with-updated-sdk-for-java-mongodb-node-js-solr-lucene-php-and-many-more.aspx Visit http://www.windowsazure...

New Windows Azure Portal is out with multitude of functionlities and bunch of other things as listed in the below announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/12/12/improved-developer-experience-interoperability-and-scalability-on...

As you may know when you finally package the Windows Azure application the final product you get is a package (CSPKG) file and your original service configuration (CSCFG) file. Starting from Windows Azure SDK 1.5, CSPKG file is unencrypted and actually...

If you experience your Windows Azure application based startup task or OnStart code does not work correctly, here are a few things you can try to investigate this issue: Add some of the diagnostics trace messages in your OnStart() function which...

If partition/row key is longer than 256 characters, you will get an error when inserting the data in Azure table storage, while you are running your application in compute emulator or accessing table storage in storage emulator directly. This problem...

You may have seen that enabling remote access from Windows Azure management portal, you roles changes status as “waiting for host..” or “updating…” or something in between. Here is some information why it happens: ...

As you may have known that when you create any of kind of role in your Windows Azure application (Web, Worker or VM) you have ability to enable Remote Access to your role. It mean you can have Remote Desktop access to all of the instances related with...