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.
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.
On this post, I would like to talk about a technology which will simplify user access for developers by allowing building claims-aware application: Windows Identity Foundation (WIF).
In this post I would like to share my experience of upgrading Azure environment to the newer SDK (v1.3, November Release).
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.
In this article I will share my experience developing a Console Application which communicates with Azure Storage.
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 International delivered a comprehensive training on Windows Azure for our client's software developer team.
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.
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.