The new Extra Small offering in the Azure Compute pricing table will be extremely helpful to companies doing prototypes or simply needing to deploy Micro-instances inside Windows Azure.

Click here to open link…

Similar Posts

Installing SQL Server Express 2008 R2 on Windows Azure Cloud and Its Usage Scenarios

ByRicardo Villalobos

Installing SQL Server on a VM Role is not a pattern that Microsoft recommends for different reasons (including local storage scalability), but this article exposes some interesting ways of using this approach for cost saving purposes. Click here to open link…

|

MSDN Magazine November 2012 – WAMS: A Robust Back End for Your Device Applications

ByRicardo Villalobos

In this month´s Windows Azure Insider column for MSDN Magazine, Bruno and I talk about Windows Azure Mobile Service, which abstracts many of the common tasks associated with developing solutions for device applications based on asynchronous calls. I hope that you enjoy it and find it helpful. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj721590.aspx.

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….

|

Mark your calendars! Windows Azure OSS Summit in Paris, France; December 4th, 2012

ByRicardo Villalobos

One of the biggest myths about Windows Azure is that it was created with only .NET developers in mind. The reality is that my team has helped multiple companies around the world implement cloud solutions using a variety of programming languages, including Java, PHP, Node.js and Python, among others. Also, it’s not difficult to find…