August, 2011

Our look at the internals of my Azure Photo Mosaics program continues with this coverage of the use of Windows Azure Queues in the application.  Windows Azure Queues are designed to facilitate inter-role communication within your Windows Azure applications...

Just got some great news regarding updates to the pricing structure for Windows Azure that not only makes Azure a tad more affordable and also less confusing from a billing perspective! First of all the price of an extra-small compute instance has been...

In this continuation of my deep-dive look at the Azure Photo Mosaics application I built earlier this year, we’ll take a look at the use of Windows Azure Table storage. If you’re just tuning in, you may want to catch up on the other posts...

Given that the Photo Mosaics application's domain is image processing, it shouldn't be a surprise that blobs (namely, images) are the most prevalent storage construct in the application. Blobs are used in two distinct ways: image libraries , collections...

Prior to my vacation break, I presented the overall workflow of the Azure Photo Mosaics program, and now it's time to dig a little deeper. I'm going to start off looking at the storage aspects of the application and then tie it all together when I subsequently...