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ADO.NET Data Services in Windows Azure: pushing scalability to the next level

Posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 7:40 PM by pabloc
The announcement of Windows Azure is a big milestone for us in the Astoria team. We got a chance to add our little contribution to the platform by providing data service interfaces for a couple of the Azure services. Currently there are two services that Read More...
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Now you know...it's Windows Azure

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:02 PM by pabloc
Since we shipped ADO.NET Data Services v1 in .NET 3.5 SP1 (and actually before that as well) I've been working on a few things that I could share (such as offline/sync support for data services) and some that I couldn't discuss publicly until all the Read More...
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Coming from under the rocks just to celebrate for a bit

Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 7:46 PM by pabloc
I've been sort of under a rock for a while, but I thought I'd come out for a minute to celebrate. Today we made available .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. There are two components in the release I spent a bunch of time on, which interestingly Read More...
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REST and Concurrency Control

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:13 PM by pabloc
As part of the Astoria design process we scanned through many topics, some of them are straightforward, some are hard but mostly mechanical, but there are some that become interesting, fundamental aspects to address. I found the problem of concurrency Read More...
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Unifying service interfaces

Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 2:37 PM by pabloc
As David Treadwell announced yesterday, we are starting to align the Windows Live services interfaces to use the AtomPub protocol, and to have a uniform set of conventions that are shared across internet services and the Project Astoria bits. What does Read More...
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"Data Friction", spot-on

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:22 PM by pabloc
Jon Udell wrote a brief piece on how data is locked on servers behind UIs that were not designed for data sharing. He views this as "data friction"...it's just the perfect way to describe the problem. I couldn't agree more with Jon's take. I would even Read More...
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A data service is not a database

Posted Thursday, August 09, 2007 6:13 PM by pabloc
Since we put out the new version of the experimental Astoria online service there has been a broad set of questions coming, which is great because it was the goal of the thing...we're learning a bunch from it. A class of questions that we are getting Read More...
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We'll host an experimental Astoria data service for you

Posted Friday, August 03, 2007 3:49 PM by pabloc
When we announced Project Astoria at Mix 2007 last May we made the toolkit available along with a few samples as an online service. The missing piece there was the ability to create your own service online in the experimental setting we had setup. Now Read More...
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