In my last post, I shown some simple examples of uploading files to Blob Storage directly from the Linux command-line using the Windows Azure Python SDK. There is a limitation with this simple method: you cannot upload file larger than 64 MB without...

We have many Windows Azure SDKs that you can use on Linux to access Windows Azure Blob Storage and upload or download files, all hosted on GitHub . For example, you could write scripts in Python or Node.JS to upload files to Blob storage. If you just...

In this article, I would like to take you through the steps to run your first Pig script on a significant dataset, using the new public preview of Windows Azure HDInsight , our distribution of Apache Hadoop made available as a service in the Cloud. The...

Recently a partner asked me for some simples examples of using the Windows Azure Management API from that most universal Swiss army knife of HTTP debug tools, namely the infamous cURL. Specifically, he was looking for an example of how to create a Linux...

In this second part, we are going to install MongoDB on a separate server, and get our Ruby on Rails talking to it! I am going to use the second VM we created in the previous post , as a reminder we used a command like this: $ azure vm create testruby...

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Windows Azure is an open and flexible platform that supports running applications written in any programming language. The authoring tools and emulators provide you everything you need to test your applications locally and package them for deployment...

In this blog post in two parts, I will show you how to deploy a set of Linux Virtual Machines running in Windows Azure, running the Ruby on Rails stack with a MongoDB back-end. The challenge is to do it without ever touching a Windows client machine,...

With the new version of the Windows Azure platform we announced on June 7th , it is now possible to create and run persistent virtual machines, with an extended choice of operating systems, including now several Linux distributions (Ubuntu, CentOS and...

No, you are not dreaming, and yes, it works: using the latest version of the PHP SDK for Windows Azure , you can use the command-line tools (and the API, for that matter) on Linux! Here’s how. You may first need to install PHP proper on your...

The Windows Azure Storage team has has recently announced the availability of a widely requested feature: Windows Azure Storage Analytics to track, analyze, and debug your usage of storage (Blobs, Tables and Queues). Here are a few additional resources...

Did you know it was possible to access the Windows Azure Blob Storage directly from JavaScript, for example using jQuery? At first, it sounds obvious, since Blobs are after all acessible from a public URL… But in practice, there is a very big hurdle:...

The Silverlight PivotViewer control offers a really compelling experience for exploring and sorting through visual data like photographs. It includes a number of built-in controls, but the other day a customer complained that he could not just hand the...

In a previous post , I have presented a little sample Java web application I have written to demonstrate how you can use Windows Azure Platform resources from a Java web application. It’s a simple starting point that includes the basic building blocks...

I have published on GitHub the source code for a very simple Java Web application, that includes all the basic building blocks you would need to start developing a “real” Java application for Windows Azure. It takes the form of an Eclipse project that...

The Windows Azure Management Cmdlets are very useful to manage your hosted services from a PowerShell command-line, and they have recently been upgraded for SDK 1.3... Unfortunately not yet for SDK 1.4. They work fine though, all you have to do is to...

I have posted the Visual Studio solution for the basic Ruby Worker Role that I described in my previous post . It is up on code.msdn.com: Basic Windows Azure Worker Role on code.msdn.com The solution containg everything, including the binaries for...

You probably know already that the Windows Azure Platform supports many types of technologies; we often mention Java or PHP in that regard, but today I would like to show you how to deploy a basic Ruby application in Windows Azure . This will also give...

I wanted to automate as much as possible the process of configuring the Apache Tomcat Redirector for IIS 7 . You can find detailed how-to documents describing how to configure the ISAPI filter manually , but I couldn’t find any ready-made scripts...

Since the 1.3 Windows Azure SDK release, you can configure a Remote Desktop connection in order to connect to your instances running in the Windows Azure fabric. This feature was one of the most frequently requested, especially by developers, who will...

Version 4.0 of the .NET Framework brings a good deal of new features to the WCF Data Services module (ex-Astoria, ex-ADO.NET Data Services), including OData protocol version 2 support; you will find on MSDN a summary page of these new features. One...

The first thing I did was to split my file access classes into a separate library, so that I could use them from both my “legacy” Desktop application and the Windows Azure version. As you can imagine, my goal is to port the rest of the application without...

In my last post , I was lamenting the fact that none of the available Azure tools supported the creation and upload of Page Blobs, that are required to use the Windows Azure Drive (or XDrive) feature. The good people at Cerebrata have heard the feedback...

This month, we announced the Beta Release of Windows Azure Drive (a.k.a. XDrive), a technology that allows you to mount a VHD (Virtual Hard Drive) into a Windows Azure instance and access it as if it was a locally attached NTFS drive. There are many applications...

Vous êtes peut-être curieux de savoir à quoi ressemblent les interfaces permettant de suivre la facturation des services de la plateforme Windows Azure. Voici quelques captures d’écran qui vous montreront le degré de détail dont l’on dispose pour suivre...