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This article offers practical guidance for developers working with the brokered messaging .NET managed API in the Windows Azure Service Bus. The recommendations supplied in this article come directly from recent customer projects. While building real-world solutions with the Service … More »...

In a previous blog posting here I ran through a typical first blocker when using the code-first feature of Entity Framework (EF) with SQL Azure Federations. That first blocker was understanding the correct procedure to submit the USE FEDERATION statement … More » Blog Post by: James Podgorski

This post was republished to AppFabric CAT at 6:29:39 PM 5/26/2011 WINDOWS AZURE SERVICE BUS & CONNECT: COMPARED AND CONTRASTED     Category ; Blog   Late last year I published a blog that compared and contrasted cloud and hybrid … More » Blog Post by: Suren Machiraju

Integrating an on-premise process with processes running in Windows Azure opens up a wide range of opportunities that enable customers to extend their on-premises solutions into the Cloud environment. Based off real-world customer projects led by the Windows Azure Customer … More » Blog Post...

Introduction Some months ago I created a custom WCF protocol channel to transparently inject client-side caching capabilities into an existing WCF-enabled application just changing the its configuration file. Since I posted my first post on this subject I received positive … More » Blog Post...

This blog post demonstrates how Windows Azure developers can leverage the Windows Azure Service Bus to enable asynchronous inter-role communication in cloud-based solutions using Service Bus topics and subscriptions. This post and its associated code sample offer a complete solution, one that enables...

The following blog post demonstrates how Windows Azure developers can leverage the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus to enable asynchronous inter-role communication in cloud-based solutions using Service Bus topics and subscriptions. This post and its associated code sample offer a … More »...

Spikes maybe noticed when working with AppFabric Cache - how to avoid this performance them More » Blog Post by: Jaime Alva Bravo

Spikes maybe noticed when working with AppFabric Cache - how to avoid this performance them More » Blog Post by: Jaime Alva Bravo

This article provides information on working with the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus from the Ruby programming language. This article assumes that you are familiar with Ruby, and have access to the Windows Azure AppFabric labs site (AppFabricLabs.com.) For more … More » Blog Post by:...

This article provides information on working with the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus from the Ruby programming language. This article assumes that you are familiar with Ruby, and have access to the Windows Azure AppFabric labs site (AppFabricLabs.com.) For more … More » Blog Post by:...

Introduction The Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Azure AppFabric that was released in May 2011 introduced Queues and Topics that constitute the foundation of a new cloud-based messaging and integration infrastructure that provides reliable message queuing and durable publish/subscribe …...

The following blog post is intended to offer a developer-oriented perspective on the implementation of a generics-aware storage layer abstraction for the Windows Azure Queue Service. The problem space addressed by the post is centered on supporting very large messages in Windows Azure queues and overcoming...

In a previous blog post I discussed the undocumented connection quotas of the Azure AppFabric Service Bus and the, often times, unexpected QuotaExceededException. Well, I am happy to inform you that our Service Bus team has listened to your concerns … More » Blog Post by: Keith Bauer

Introduction Recently I had chance to work with a health care company that makes an extensive use of the BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 for processing a large amount of messages containing clinical and administrative information. Health care companies need a … More » Blog Post by: Paolo Salvatori

In the past, we have always recommended disabling Intel’s Hyper-Threading in the server’s BIOS on your BizTalk Server and SQL Server machines (for processors that are Hyper-Threading enabled).  With Intel’s current-generation (Nehalem+) of Hyper-Threading, is this recommendation...

The BizTalk Server 2010 Performance Optimization Guide was released earlier in the year (for those who missed it).  I spent a bunch of time working on the lab for this guide and then working with our user education team on … More » Blog Post by: Tim Wieman

In this mini-series, I’ll share experiences from a recent project and explore the decisions that were made as we worked to design and deliver a solution which leverages the relay capability of the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus. The first … More » Blog Post by: Keith Bauer

I’ve stayed quiet in the blogosphere for a couple of months (well, maybe a little longer)…for a good reason – since my move from Redmond to New Zealand as a regional AppFabric CAT resource for APAC, I’ve been aggressively engaging … More » Blog Post by: Emil Velinov

After an amazing amount of very fruitful work, today we are announcing our offering of cache in the cloud via the release of Windows Azure AppFabric Caching Service. The Caching service is an explicit, distributed, in-memory cache service that helps … More » Blog Post by: Jaime Alva Bravo

I am working on a project where I am responsible for the transport layer. We’ve rolled an internal only first rev of the solution out and I thought I’d share some early lesson learned. For the transport layer itself after … More » Blog Post by: Christian Martinez

This post provides insight into some of the undocumented details of the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus connection quotas. In particular, it answers the following questions: Under what circumstances will you receive the QuotaExceededException when establishing Service Bus connections? What …...

Introduction A couple of months ago Yossi Dahan told me that one of his customers in the UK was searching for a solution to transparently cache the response messages resulting from a WCF call. I immediately thought that this design … More » Blog Post by: Paolo Salvatori

The following post is not about my trip to Scottish Highlands in 2005 even though it was fun having been able to spend a few days with “Nessie”. I just thought I would share some observations from a recent customer … More » Blog Post by: Valery Mizonov

A recent customer engagement prompted me to share details regarding a comparison of the REST API’s used to manage the Windows Azure Queue Service and the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). As expected, these services both provide similar types of … More » Blog Post by: Keith Bauer