This article presents an store inventory application based on the new features found in the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus, using a mix of Topics and Queues. It discusses the basic features of the Windows Azure AppFabric ServiceBus and give a general feel for using it with example code.
This short video shows you how to build and deploy a simple application to Windows Azure using Node.js. More information on this combination of technologies can be found on Node.js Developer Center.
This session shares Microsoft’s vision,strategy and roadmap for particular products and technologies. It focuses on Hyper-V,Microsoft System Center,Windows Azure and Microsoft Office 365,Private and Public Cloud,application development and management.
In a typical website, some element of static reference data exists in the system. This static reference data might never change or might change infrequently. Rather than continually querying for the same data from the database, storing the data in a cache can provide great performance benefits. This article discusses …
This video discusses the Windows Azure Traffic Manager. Traffic Manager provides several ways to load balance traffic to multiple hosted services. You can choose from three load balancing methods: Performance, Failover, or Round Robin. You will learn how to configure Traffic Manager policies and test with your own applications.
When your write software for the Cloud, you have to answer the question “how much will it cost?”. This blog post provides tools and techniques to build a cost model for the cloud with a more specific focus on Windows Azure.
Most people using Windows Azure are using ASP.NET and PHP, but Windows Azure is much more general than that. Steve Marx will show how he built a few web apps (including his blog) that run on Windows Azure and don’t use .NET or PHP. Server-side JavaScript, Ruby, and Python will …
This video explains how to use the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles to quickly and easily deploy one or more websites across multiple Web Role instances using Web Deploy. When using this accelerator with Web Deploy, deployments only take about 30 seconds and are durably stored in Windows Azure …
