Neil Kidd's Blog

One thing that you need to consider when designing your Azure application is " what is the minimum deployment "? If your application has 5 different queues with a worker role to read each queue, we are going to want at least 2 instances per Read More...

Building a decoupled, queue based system is will give you the ability to scale and the opportunity to create a highly available application. By dispatching work to multiple back end worker roles we are building a system that can survive unfortunate events Read More...

If you are developing a queue based system in Windows Azure - and lets face it, if you want a highly scalable and reliable application, you going to be using queue - you are going to have to deal with poison messages. A poison message is a message that Read More...

Windows Azure provides two main things - a place to run your code and a place to store your data. When you are reading this keep in mind that Windows Azure is built for writing and hosting highly scalable and available applications - it is not about just Read More...

Ok, so the Channel 9 video we did is a too little long for an introduction to the MOB Guardian project . For a briefer overview and why AWS and the RNLI are looking to use Azure to help save lives at sea, have a look at: RNLI and AWS Mob Guardian Windows Read More...