In a typical website, some element of static reference data exists in the system. This static reference data might never change or might change infrequently. Rather than continually querying for the same data from the database, storing the data in a cache can provide great performance benefits. This article discusses …
This video discusses the Windows Azure Traffic Manager. Traffic Manager provides several ways to load balance traffic to multiple hosted services. You can choose from three load balancing methods: Performance, Failover, or Round Robin. You will learn how to configure Traffic Manager policies and test with your own applications.
When your write software for the Cloud, you have to answer the question “how much will it cost?”. This blog post provides tools and techniques to build a cost model for the cloud with a more specific focus on Windows Azure.
Most people using Windows Azure are using ASP.NET and PHP, but Windows Azure is much more general than that. Steve Marx will show how he built a few web apps (including his blog) that run on Windows Azure and don’t use .NET or PHP. Server-side JavaScript, Ruby, and Python will …
This article shows how to deploy an application built using Visual Studio LightSwitch to Windows Azure, which eliminates the need to dedicate resources to infrastructure management.
This video explains how to use the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles to quickly and easily deploy one or more websites across multiple Web Role instances using Web Deploy. When using this accelerator with Web Deploy, deployments only take about 30 seconds and are durably stored in Windows Azure …
This article explains how the Windows Azure Service Management REST API can be used to autoscale a hosted service, so that it can handle the current and predicted load depending on the day of the week. By autoscale we mean the ability of a hosted service to scale itself elastically …
Your Azure application isn’t working. What should you do now? Better question: What should you have done before now? This article explains how the Windows Azure Diagnostics classes can help you to figure out why your Azure application isn’t working correctly.
