Enabling Modern Apps
I’ve just finished presenting my talk on “Successfully Adopting the Cloud: TfGM Case Study”and there were a couple of questions that I said I would clarify.
1. What are the limits for the numbers of subscriptions per service bus topic. the answer is 2000. further details can be found at: …
Read MoreWindows Azure Websites, Web API and SignalR
Steve Spencer Jan 9, 2013 · 6 min read · ASP.NET SQL Azure Visual Studio Windows 8 Windows Azure Websites ·One of our projects involves a web service that implements both SignalR and Web API and we were looking at the quickest and most cost effective way to get it deployed so that one of our customers could run a Windows 8 application as a demo away from the office. The application works well internally as we have the …
Read More- Costing a system for running on Windows Azure seems complex at times and sometimes it is easy to calculate and other times it is not. However there have been a number of times in recent months where I have experienced higher than expected costs for Windows Azure. The first thing to check is the actual bill. The bills …
Read More Windows Azure Platform Training Kit Update
Steve Spencer Dec 9, 2011 · 1 min read · ACS AppFabric Events SQL Azure Windows Azure Windows Azure AppFabric ·If you attended the [Black Marble Architecture Event](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/events.aspx?event=Architecture Forum in the North 4) yesterday you would have seen a number of talks around Azure and the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit was mentioned a number of times.
The latest update to the training kit is here: …
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AppFabric
Microsoft have announced two new Azure AppFabric CTPs.
May 2011 CTP will include Service bus enhancements including
- A more comprehensive pub/sub messaging
- Integration with the Access Control Service V2
- Queues based upon a new messaging infrastructure backed by a replicated, durable store.
See here for more …
Read MoreDuring my Azure talks in Ireland we were discussing issues with migrating SQL to SQL Azure.
At PDC 2010 in Redmond there was a good talk about migrating TFS to Windows Azure and covers the issues they found. It details well the SQL Server to SQL Azure issues and discusses how they solved them. Here is a link to the …
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