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Exploring the Service Provider track – First station: Fabrikam Shipping – Part I (the scenario & challenges)

Once again, thanks everybody that wrote us with reviews, feedback and suggestions! Please keep it coming! Also: we hope to have soon a CodePlex site where we can start sharing more. We are still working out some details. As usual, the Disclaimer: this

First experiments with (new) SQL Data Services

Last week I got my new login to the new SQL Data Services . As a reminder for all readers: SDS accelerates its plans to offer relational capabilities May 11, 2009 - Based on customer feedback, SDS has accelerated its plans and will be offering true relational

Windows Azure 101 – Primitives and Application Patterns – Playing Mendeleyev

Windows Azure’s primitives are very simple, but as in many other things, the power comes from the combination of these simpler primitives to create more complex things. Look around and see how many things can be assembled from a little more than 100 “simple”

Azure IssueTracker Enterprise - Simple Demos

Provisioning IssueTracker Enterprise: Highlights: There’s no direct interaction with Access Control Service. IssueTracker uses ACS API to create the scopes, rules and the issuer (Contoso). The provisioning form captures all the required information to

Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise – Part IV - SuperCloudySoftware sketches IssueTracker Enterprise Edition

In the previous article , we explored the challenges of building services for an enterprise, illustrating those through a dialogue between VeryBigCorp CIO and a team from SuperCloudySoftware . VBC requirements can be summarized as: Identity integration

The need for “standards for application logic” in PaaS. Really?

In his latest post on Coghead’s demise, Phil argues that: “ What this highlights is the lack of any standard for transferring not just data but application logic between such platforms.” My argument is that those standards already exist and are widely
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Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part III - SuperCloudySoftware meets VeryBigCorp CIO

Actors : the CIO at VeryBigCorp , John ( SuperCloudySoftware's CEO) and a bunch of senior developers and architects. CIO : Gentlemen, welcome. Let me start by saying that our internal Customer is absolutely fascinated with your application. Believe me,

Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part II - VeryBigCorp buys IssueTracker

Now that we have introduced our characters, we will start this story describing the acquisition process of IssueTracker in VeryBigCorp . IssueTracker was first used in VBC by a very limited number of people. Someone in some business unit somehow learnt

Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part I - Introducing the Actors

I will start this series by introducing the main characters of our scenario. First, we have VeryBigCorp . VBC is a large corporation, with multiple branches and subsidiaries, thousands of employees, etc. VBC is the typical organization with a rather complex

Architecting Cloud Services for the Big Enterprise

For the last couple of months, we’ve been working on scenarios that involve consuming cloud services and applications from "Big Enterprise" . The focus being the technical obstacles for adopting cloud services. Big Enterprise is the moniker we use to

Northwind Hosting exists, it's better than what you saw and it's called SaaSGrid

Sinclair Schuller , CEO of Apprenda was kind enough to demo SaaSGrid to me earlier this week, patient enough to answer all my questions and I have to say, that I'm really impressed. What is SaaSGrid? In their own words: If you're building an on-demand
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Concurrency in SSDS

A common concern with SSDS, and a common question I get in many presentations I've given is how to handle concurrency and entity versioning. Suppose you have the following sequence of events: By default, SSDS will just accept the last Update and overwrite

Claim based security made easy

When we implemented claim based authorization in LitwareHR, we had to write a lot of code and play with non-trivial configurations (LitwarehR includes 2 STS and all the supporting infrastructure for securing the web services and the callers to them).

LitwareHR and GeoRSS

Some time ago , I did some experiments with Virtual Earth control and its features. I especially liked the GeoRSS integration because it allowed very simple, straightforward, non-astronauts like me to do some very nice mashups. WCF support for creating

You don't have a beta account with SSDS, but you'd like to use the latest LitwareHR anyway

Well, too bad...No, seriously now, as I mentioned in a previous post , we developed a "mock" (but fully functional for LitwareHR's purposes) offline SSDS proxy to enable development independently from the live SSDS service. The offline proxy
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