Blog Articles of Alexander Koval

Upgrade Windows 7 Professional to Windows 8 Pro for Lenovo X220 laptop

My experience of upgrading Lenovo X220 laptop from Windows 7 Professional to Windows 8 Pro.

Scale Out Sql Server with Azure Federations

How do you handle growing number of sql transactions? I will be going over scaling the database layer: scaling-out vs. scaling-up. In the next segment I will present the out-of-the box scale-out solution for SQL Azure: Federations. I will go over the concept of Federations in SQL Azure, Management of Federations as well as pricing and billing for Azure Federations.

Instrument your Azure app with Performance Counters

In this article I would like to describe monitoring the health of your application in Windows Azure via Performance Counters. In this article I will focus on performance counters and provide a working code example.

Introduction to Azure AppFabric

The Azure platform is being rapidly upgraded as new features are rolled in it. In this blog article I would like to review the applications Azure AppFabric to the existing problems of the enterprise software companies.

Upgrade to Azure SDK v1.3 is not as smooth as expected

In this post I would like to share my experience of upgrading Azure environment to the newer SDK (v1.3, November Release).

Alex Koval to speak about Windows Azure AppFabric at Tuladev.net

Alex Koval (Me) will be speaking at the Tuladev.Net Users’ Group on Saturday December 4th, 2010 on Windows Azure AppFabric, Azure Service Bus, Access Control Service.

Console App talking to Azure Storage

In this article I will share my experience developing a Console Application which communicates with Azure Storage.

Configuring Azure Storage ConnectionString

Configuring Azure Storage ConnectionString in VS 2010 is easy. In this article I provide simple steps on how to configure your DiagnosticsConnectionString and DataConnectionString to point to your Azure Storage.

Codemasters delivered training on Windows Azure

Codemasters International delivered a comprehensive training on Windows Azure for our client's software developer team.

MVC with Windows Azure

The article explores benefits of using MVC with Windows Azure application. To demonstrate the benefits of MVC with Windows Azure I enclose 2 hands-on Demos with code samples.

Save your job with Windows Azure!

More and more technologies are born each year as software developers have less and less time to learn and play with the new tools. It becomes important to invest your precious learning time wisely. In my article I would like to talk about a technology which is worth learning, the technology which will be around for decades. That technology is Microsoft Windows Azure.