Contents tagged with Cloud
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Azure Pays Off
A year ago I have started looking and evaluating cloud options. AWS and Azure were two options. I have decided to go with Azure for a couple of reasons that are still valid today (even more than a year ago)
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Cut Deployment Time and Cost on Windows Azure
I’m new to Windows Azure, and learning by making mistakes. There’s a lot to learn about Azure in general, and one of the interesting aspects is deployments and cost associated with it. Taking this moment, I’d like to thank Yves Goeleven, Azure MVP, who has helped me a lot.
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CSPACK.EXE - Careful with Defaults
When packaging Windows Azure solution from within Visual Studio .NET 2010, CSPACK is generating cspackproperties file behind the scenes, defaulting to .NET 3.5 Framework. I missed that part when going over the documentation and had to go through the worker role that can’t starts and no error is logged, since worker never loads. Gladly, solution is trivial and so old that is probably long time forgotten by the Azure veterans. But for newbies like myself, don’t dismiss old material, even if it’s from 2010. Nothing New Under the Sky…
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Backbone.js, NServiceBus, and Cloud Hosting
In the past I have always created on premises solutions for web applications that have mostly based on the server side code responsible for front UI and backend code, with a little to none client side code (usually called “scripting” with intention that it is not really a code), predominant validation on the server side with some duplication on the client. Technology of choice was ASP.NET MVC. When choice was not mine, sometime it would be ASP.NET WebForms. Services would be created using WCF, without auto-generated proxies.