Contents tagged with Azure Storage
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The new Auto Scaling Service in Windows Azure
One of the key features of the Cloud is the on-demand scalability, which lets the cloud application developers to scale up or scale down the number of compute resources hosted on the Cloud. Auto Scaling provides the capability to dynamically scale up and scale down your compute resources based on user-defined policies, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), health status checks, and schedules, without any manual intervention. Auto Scaling is an important feature to consider when designing and architecting cloud based solutions, which can unleash the real power of Cloud to the apps for providing truly on-demand scalability and can also guard the organizational budget for cloud based application deployment. In the past, you have had to leverage the the Microsoft Enterprise Library Autoscaling Application Block (WASABi) or a services like MetricsHub for implementing Automatic Scaling for your cloud apps hosted on the Windows Azure. The WASABi required to host your auto scaling block in a Windows Azure Worker Role for effectively implementing the auto scaling behaviour to your Windows Azure apps. The newly announced Auto Scaling service in Windows Azure lets you add automatic scaling capability to your Windows Azure Compute Services such as Cloud Services, Web Sites and Virtual Machine. Unlike WASABi hosted on a Worker Role, you don’t need to host any monitoring service for using the new Auto Scaling service and the Auto Scaling service will be available to individual Windows Azure Compute Services as part of the Scaling.
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Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET Released
The Windows Azure Cloud Computing platform has been in the big news after the platform exceeded the annual revenue of $1 billion. Today, Microsoft has been released the Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET update that lets the .NET developers to build Windows Azure apps from Visual Studio with an easy and more elegant manner. The new update provides the lot of improvements within Visual Studio, for developing, deploying and managing Windows Azure apps. You can download and install the Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET from the Windows Azure .NET developer center. The Windows Azure SDK for .NET is a open source project hosted on GitHub.
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Slides and Code from My Global Windows Azure Bootcamp Presentation
I did a presentation on Windows Azure Cloud Services at Global Windows Azure Bootcamp in Kochi, India. The title of the session was “Windows Azure Cloud Services – Web Roles and Worker Roles”. In this session, I have demonstrated how to building multi-tier Windows Azure Cloud Services application using with Web Role, Worker Role, Table Storage and Service Bus Queue. You can download the source code from my github repository https://github.com/shijuvar/AzureCloudServices. The code walkthrough demonstrated in the blog post Building Windows Azure Cloud Services App with Web Role, Worker Role, Table Storage and Service Bus. The slides used for the talk can download from here.
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Building Windows Azure Cloud Services App with Web Role, Worker Role, Table Storage and Service Bus
Windows Azure Cloud Services, provides a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering for building multi-tier, highly scalable, reliable cloud applications on the Windows Azure Cloud platform. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to build a multi-tier Windows Azure Cloud Services application using with Web Role, Worker Role, Table Storage and Service Bus Queue. This demo application will also demonstrates the usages of Service Bus Queue, Table Storage and how to communicate between the Web Role and Worker Role.
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CRUD demo in Node.js with Windows Azure SQL Database
Microsoft has recently announced the preview release of Microsoft Driver for Node.JS for SQL Server which allows the Node.js developers to connect Microsoft SQL Server database and Windows Azure SQL database. This is a great addition to the tool set for Node.js developers. NoSQL databases are widely using with Node.js for building high performance apps. However, in many situations we might be required a relational database where we can use Microsoft Driver for Node.JS for SQL Server, to working with Microsoft SQL Server database and Windows Azure SQL database. I have a created CRUD demo in Node.js with Express framework which can be available on Github at https://github.com/shijuvar/NodeOnAzure/tree/master/SqlNode . The demo app is built with Node.js, Express.js, Jade View Engine and the node-sqlserver module.
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Microsoft Reduces Prices on SQL Azure Cloud Storage
Microsoft has reduced the price of SQL Azure storage which will greatly attract customers to migrating their apps to Windows Azure. The newly announced price of SQL Azure decreases 48 percentages to 75 percentages of cost from the previous cost.
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Tips and Important Steps for Migrating Apps to Windows Azure
The following are the few important steps and tips for migrating ASP.NET apps to Windows Azure.
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Building a Windows Azure App using Azure Queue, Azure Table and ASP.NET MVC Web Role
In this post, I will demonstrate a Windows Azure app using Azure Queue, Azure Table and a ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Role application. This post is explaining few initial steps for building a demo Azure app where asynchronous commands (write operations that changes the data) put into Azure Queue and an Azure Work Role will persist the data into Azure Table from Queue messages for the read operations. The source code is available from http://azurehack.codeplex.com/ .The demo application will modify and add more functionality on later.