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Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:08 PM

“Live” Monitoring Of Your Worker Roles in Azure

[Cross-posted from here ] I’ve been working for a bit on some larger-scale jobs targeting the Windows Azure platform and early last week had assembled a collection of worker roles that were supposed to be processing my datasets for a number of days moving...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:59 PM

SilverLight and Paging with Azure Data

[Cross-posted from here ] If you’ve been watching by blog at all lately, you know that I’ve been playing with some larger data sets and Azure storage , specifically Azure table storage. Last week I found myself working with a SilverLight application to...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:27 PM

AtomPub, JSON, Azure and Large Datasets, Part 2

[Cross-posted from here ] Last Friday I posted some initial results from some simplistic testing I had done comparing pulling data from Azure via ATOM (the ADO.NET data services client) and JSON. I was surprised at the significant difference in payload...
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Friday, August 14, 2009 2:27 PM

AtomPub, JSON, Azure, and Large Datasets

UPDATE 8/20/2009, 15:29 EST: There is some confusing content in this post (i.e. Azure storage doesn’t support JSON). A follow up to this post with further explanation/detail is available here -- UPDATE 8/14/2009, 17:16 EST: @smarx pointed out that this...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 4:07 PM

Silverlight and Azure Table Data Paging

[Cross posted from here ] I’m playing around with a data visualization app using Silverlight and data hosted in Azure Tables and have been learning quite a bit in the process. Firstly, Azure tables only allows you to return 1000 records in a given query...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 3:33 PM

Azure, Visualization, and Large Datasets

[This is cross-posted from here ] I’ve been working on kicking the tires of Azure’s data functions and in the process was able to get my hands on a large set of climate data for testing purposes. I’m fighting with some size issues and azure, but thought...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:14 AM

Azure Blob Storage Blob IDs and “+”

[This is cross-posted from here ] I’ve been kicking the tires on Azure’s blob storage and am working on uploading a 1.2GB+ NetCDF file. I stumbled across a couple of samples online that were very helpful in avoiding the de facto client library that ships...
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 2:12 PM

Common API Set for Cloud Storage?

I’m working on a project which has as one of its goals the “publishing” of some very large datasets (order of 1PB) to the “cloud” for consumption by the general populous for use in scientific research. Rather than designing/inventing our own API, our...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:14 PM

Clouds and Traditional Hosting Companies

NOTE: this blog has moved to http://rob.gillenfamily.net Please update your links and feed readers appropriately.   I sat on a conference call yesterday wherein we discussed our thoughts on where the cloud was going and how it was going to impact...
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Friday, July 18, 2008 10:03 AM

Thinking the Cloud…

I’ve been talking quite a bit with a co-worker about “the cloud” and how organizations can and will leverage it over time, and how application development/design may change as a result. Microsoft’s Sql Server Data Services (SSDS) is only one example of...
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