The idea of starting a technical blog has been in my head for quite some time… and now it’s happening. I like to research and apply new technologies, and this is where I will post about my journey in web development, cloud computing, enterprise architecture, and coding for fun. Thanks for reading!
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Windows Azure Insider December 2012 – Using Service Bus sessions for advanced messaging patterns
For the December 2012 issue of the MSDN magazine Windows Azure Insider column, Bruno and I take on the session capabilities offered by the Service Bus, allowing developers to group messages and use a private state for storing global values. We also talk about advanced messaging patterns, and their importance when it comes to decoupling…
Global Windows Azure Bootcamp 2013 – Denver, CO USA
This Saturday, April 27th 2013, Microsoft will be hosting the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp at our office in Denver, Colorado. Brendon McCarthy, Joe Mayo, Bill Wegerson and I will be presenting on different topics, including hybrid cloud architectures, messaging and storage strategies. This one day deep dive class was created with developers in mind, wanting…
About using IntelliTrace with Windows Azure…
I had the opportunity last night to do a presentation about Windows Azure for the Denver Visual Studio User Group – http://www.denvervisualstudio.net/. One of the topics that we discussed was using IntelliTrace for debugging purposes on Azure, somebody in the audience pointing out that this was not recommended by Microsoft for production environments. Since I was…
MSDN Magazine – Windows 8 and Windows Azure: convergence in the cloud
I’d like to share the article that I recently wrote with my friend and colleague Bruno Terkaly for the MSDN Magazine Windows 8 special edition. We show how easy it is to write and host a REST enabled Service in Windows Azure, supporting Windows 8 applications making asynchronous calls to retrieve data. It can be…
Ensuring High Availability of Web Applications in Windows Azure
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Windows Azure AppFabric Caching transactions and update modes
While talking to a startup company today, they asked me about the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service, trying to replace a Redis self-managed deployment. The conversation steered specifically towards atomic transactions and update modes. I found a really good white paper from Scott Seely that talks about the two update patterns supported: optimistic and pessimistic….