Steve Balmer very publicly pronounced that Microsoft was “all in” for cloud computing and Windows Azure. So that means Microsoft is using cloud for its internal IT as well as building products to utilize the cloud. If you want to learn how Microsoft IT is using Windows Azure to move ...
SQL Azure is a cloud-based service from Microsoft offering data storage capabilities similar to Amazon S3 and Amazon Relational Database Service as a part of the Azure Services Platform. Unlike similar cloud-based databases, SQL Azure allows relational queries to be made against stored data.
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Measuring performance of your HTTP-based .NET applications: Performance Counters for HttpWebRequest
Just found this and thought to share it with you: Network Class Library Team (System.Net): New Performance Counters for HttpWebRequest Each of the seven green circles represents one of the six performance counters (there are two ‘5’ items because 5 is the average lifetime, and there are two code ...
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You think WCF needs more of you? Go and vote for your most desired features now
The WCF team has set up a uservoice page for voting on WCF v-Next features. Go ahead and influence WCF!
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Pay in the future should make you think in the present
Distributed Computing - and more importantly “-as-a-Service” models of computing have a different cost model. This is something that sounds obvious on the surface but it’s often forgotten during the design and coding phase of a project. In on-premises computing, we’re used to purchasing a server and all of ...
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“I could use a little help here” or “I can do it myself, thank you” for Cloud Projects
Windows Azure allows you to write code in languages within the .NET stack, you can use Java, C++, PHP, NodeJS and others. Code is code - other than keeping things stateless, using a Web or Worker Role in Azure is not all that different from working with an on-premises system. ...
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Slides for my sessions at DevWeek 2012
And here we go – as promised to all of you nice people attending one of my sessions last week in London. Light-weight web-based architectures with Web APIs Real world experiences with Windows Azure (the slides do not make a lot of sense without the demos, which I cannot publish ...
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March Madness – SQL Azure – sys.dm_exec_query_stats
Yesterday we saw how to view the query plan for the statements hitting your SQL Azure instance. Looking at the statement and the plan itself is good, but it does not give you a complete picture for performance tuning. For that you will need some historical context. One way to ...
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March Madness – SQL Azure – sys.dm_exec_sql_text
Yesterday we were looking at how to find all the current requests that were hitting your SQL Azure instance. We can take the information returned by that system view and use it with a CROSS APPLY to the sys.dm_exec_sql_text table function. You can input either a SQL handle or ...
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SQL Azure and Trust Services
Microsoft is working on a new Windows Azure service called “Trust Services”. Trust Services takes a certificate you upload and uses it to encrypt and decrypt sensitive data in the cloud. Of course, like any security service, there’s a bit more to it than that. I’ll give you ...
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March Madness – SQL Azure – sys.dm_exec_connections
Yesterday we talked about how you can view the currently connected sessions to your SQL Azure instance. Doing so allowed for us to view the background sessions that were currently running tasks against our instance. Today we will look at the current connections and the sys.dm_exec_connections system view. You ...