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Archives / 2011 / November
  • Initial thoughts on the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles

    Deployment is considered today as one of the major pain points in the Windows Azure platform.  A simple application deployment today can take around 20 or 30 minutes to complete, and to make the things even worse, there is not support for partial updates meaning that a simple change requires a complete upgrade or deployment.  The Windows Azure team has recently introduced the support for web deploy in the platform to deal with this issue. Using Web Deploy, you can deploy a complete application or part of it in an existing web role instance in a matter of seconds, which is a huge improvement to what we had so far.