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I have recently been working on a big Azure application that we have been wanting to deploy to the cloud and test, to make sure that no unexpected bugs occur whilst the application is in the wild and give the opportunity to see how it performs. Now the
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Last week saw a new intake of Microsoft Student Partners (MSPs) converge on Microsoft UK, for a 2 day event kicking off the academic year. During the two days the students had various presentations from people all around the business ranging from talks
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A couple of weeks ago I managed to get into a real pickle when trying to run a Azure application after upgrading to the latest CTP. After an hour of furiously checking my code and being convinced it was correct, I gave in and Binged to try and find why
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One of the best practices when creating an application on top of the Azure Service Platform is to constantly log your applications activity. This is so that when a worker role inevitably goes down (and it will) you will be view output in your log files
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Great Channel 9 video featuring Amitabh Srivastava the VP for Windows Azure, talking about Azure, the cloud, cloud services, developing for the cloud and some insights into what's in store for the future. My favourite quote from this hour long dive into
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Rob Bagby has started out a multipart series of Azure web casts on channel 9, which will hopefully give some real insight into the world of Windows Azure from setting up your machine right through to creating scalable applications using the Azure storage
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Just been announced that Windows Azure will be making a leap from using Pacific Standard Time and using Co-Ordinated Universal Time ( UTC ). This change is being done so that it poses less problems for global dev’s and users, however the exact date of
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Bill Lodin over at IT Mentors has put together a really nice tool that allows you to view your Windows Azure logs in a WPF log viewer The application replicates the functionality of the development fabric’s UI that lets you monitor any messages that are
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I’ve been wanting to create a WPF or Console application that could communicate with Azure by passing a Message to the Fabric. However, I did not want to have to pass WCF messages to a worker role as I had seen people doing in previous examples, instead
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Neil Kidd has put together a great set of posts together to explain in detail how to create reliable Windows Azure processes. Covering how to add logic into the GetHealthStatus() method, to identify when your worker role has gone from being healthy to
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I have recently been taking a look at Windows Azure Storage, and the use of Blob’s, Queues and Tables. Queues are primarily used for passing small (approx 8kb) messages from the web role of a Azure application to the back end worker role that can then
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This month’s Wired magazine has a 11 page article on Microsoft's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie. Documenting his eventful life from his love for the PLATO system which he discovered as a sophomore studying at the University of Illinois, right through
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This video gives found via Steve Clayton's and Mark Johnston's blog's shows one of the funniest tongue in cheek overviews of what Windows Azure (codename: Red Dog) is all about. It also proves that the DPE guys, within Microsoft UK have a little too much
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After having recently downloaded the Azure Training Kit I launched straight into trying to build some of the demos to get my head around how Azure works, especially the use of the storage areas (Blobs, Tables and Queues) that developers can access to
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After recently watching Manuvir Das's video on Channel 9, Introducing Windows Azure I have decided to put a quick blog post together to share my thoughts about the back end workings of Azure. Overview I have provided below a jpg to show a simplified overview
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