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Windows Azure Insider July 2013 – Meter and Autoscale Multi-Tenant Applications in Windows Azure

ByRicardo Villalobos

This month, for the MSDN Magazine Windows Azure Insider column, Bruno and I follow up on the topic of creating multi-tenant solutions in the cloud, particularly focusing on metering and auto-scaling, which are crucial tasks for properly maintaining applications that serve multiple resources sharing compute and storage resource. The full article can be found here:…

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Telemetry Ingestion and Analysis Using Microsoft Azure Services

ByRicardo Villalobos

For the latest Azure Insider column Bruno Terkaly and I invited our colleague in France, Thomas Conté, to write an article about Telemetry Ingestion and Analysis using common cloud components, including Worker Roles, BLOB Storage, and HDInsight. He did an amazing job illustrating this specific workload, providing multiple options for each step of the process,…

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Enabling WinRM / Remote Powershell on Azure Resource Manager Windows OS VMs

ByRicardo Villalobos

Note: these instructions only apply to Windows VMs created using Azure Resource Manager. For VMs created in Azure Classic mode (old portal at http://manage.windowsazure.com), WinRM / Remote Powershell is enabled by default for certified Windows images. If you need WinRM (required to run remote Powershell commands) enabled on new Windows Virtual Machines created using Azure Resource…

Windows Azure AppFabric Caching transactions and update modes

ByRicardo Villalobos

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….