Folks I’ve decided to list some useful links and tips that I’ve come across as part
of our work we do. This list will grow and expand as time goes on.
- Design/Pre Work
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Azure Naming conventions for Services, Containers,
Blobs, Metadata, Naming
and Registry -
Hosted Service Names are < 63 chars (previously there was a bug with service names
over 24 chars and not being able to rdp, not sure if this is fixed) -
Azure Icons for use in Visio and the like – http://davidpallmann.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/windows-azure-design-patterns-part-1.html (thanks
David) - SSL Connections terminate at the webroles
- Admin/Subscriptions
- Currently each Role size has a minimum of 1.6GHz CPU
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Environment variables available in Windows
Azure (well done Toddy) -
Hard limit of 20 storage accounts per subscriptions max – most will show smaller e.g.
5 or 8 - Troubleshooting Best Practice for Developing Windows Azure Applications WhitePaper
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Encrypting Connection Strings – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlazure/archive/2010/09/07/10058942.aspx
- Roles
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Role
Architecture – great explanation -
Detecting whether you’re running in STAGING
or PROD – it’s all in the deployment id. -
Worker Role – WaWorkerHost.exe – is the Windows Azure Worker Process
- Azure Storage
- HTTP Headers to use on Blob Services – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dd179371.aspx
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HTTP Commands on Blob Services – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dd135731.aspx
- SQL Azure
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Cloud Numerics – allows analytics to be performed in Azure using extended .NET libraries
– here. -
Cloud
Numerics Blog
- Azure Service Bus
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Creating new service identities – SBAzTool in Windows
Azure Service Bus v1.5 SDK - Service Bus is implemented on top of SQL Azure.
- WCF
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Turn on WCF Tracing – Azure
World
- Monitoring
- External Party – http://www.paraleap.com/AzureWatch
Blog Post by: Mick Badran