Forecast: Cloudy
Joseph Fultz
Joseph Fultz shows how you can weather high demand on your site and services using dedicated and co-located roles for caching in the Windows Azure Caching (Preview).
October
2012
Joseph Fultz
NoSQL is a hot topic, and one of the most popular ways of approaching it is with MongoDB. Joseph Fultz looks at some of the design and implementation aspects of using MongoDB in a Windows Azure environment.
September
2012
Joseph Fultz
Learn how to use the Microsoft Extensibility Framework to make a cloud deployment a little more manageable and flexible.
August
2012
Joseph Fultz
Node.js is generating lots of buzz, and Joseph Fultz explains how he incorporated it into an existing Windows Azure solution.
July
2012
Joseph Fultz
Joseph Fultz presents five reasons you should get started with Windows Azure today.
May
2012
Joseph Fultz
Joseph Fultz uses Windows Azure as the context in which to explore general architectural considerations and some base high-level designs for creating cloud-based solutions.
March
2012
Joseph Fultz
Joseph Fultz considers the complexities of updating a Web application deployment, focusing on the use of fault domains and upgrade domains.
February
2012
Joseph Fultz
Joseph Fultz maps Windows Azure caching capabilities to caching strategies for output, in-memory data and file resources, balancing the desire for fresh data with the desire for the best performance.
January
2012
Joseph Fultz
Joseph Fultz completes his store inventory project based on the new features found in the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus, using a mix of Topics and Queues.
December
2011
Joseph Fultz
With the AppFabric CTP June Update, the AppFabric Service Bus now offers Topics, a rich, new publish-and-subscribe capability. Joseph Fultz shows how this new messaging technology can be used to facilitate inter-store inventory checks.
October
2011
Joseph Fultz
The SQL Azure Reporting CTP gives developers a familiar paradigm for developing and distributing reports—except that no one has to worry about the infrastructure to host it. Joseph Fultz demonstrates with a simple example that uses data from performance counters captured as part of the diagnostics for a Web Role.
September
2011
Joseph Fultz
There isn’t yet a lot of support for a cloud-deployed search solution, but with Windows Azure, Lucene.Net and a bit of OpenXML, just about any searching requirements can be met. Joseph Fultz gets you started with a sample implementation.
August
2011
Joseph Fultz
Windows Azure is far from a single-platform environment. To demonstrate its power, we'll build the same app for three different mobile devices: Windows Phone 7, jQuery and Android.
June
2011
Joseph Fultz
A client needed to load-balance private service endpoints on Windows Azure Worker Roles without taking on the latency of a queuing operation. I'll walk you through one possible solution to this problem.
May
2011
Joseph Fultz
Learn how to combine multiple cloud services into a single app, taking advantage of services offered by Windows Azure, Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control, Bing Maps and Facebook.
March
2011
Joseph Fultz
Learn how using Windows Azure to sync corporate databases lets you scale to many more end nodes than are possible with direct-to-database synchronization.
February
2011
Joseph Fultz
Learn how to use SQL Azure and the Sync Framework to move data between the corporate data center, various branches and individual devices.
January
2011
Joseph Fultz, Shad Phillips
We walk through a sample implementation that lets users selectively push content from SharePoint to Windows Azure Storage, providing links to the new locations and taking into account access control to the files.
December
2010
Joseph Fultz
When migrating your applications to Windows Azure, there are several data storage options to choose from. We’ll look at strengths of SQL Azure and Windows Azure Table Storage to help you understand which is the right choice for your app.
November
2010
Joseph Fultz
One of the great features of cloud computing is the ability to scale up or down to serve the needs of the application owner. We’ll show you a technique for programmatically scaling your app in Windows Azure based on application performance.
October
2010