I have recently installed the Windows Azure AppFabric SDK because I’m writing an article for the Dutch .NET Magazine. Problem is I try to do everything in Visual Studio 2010 these days, just because it’s so cool to have something that’s buggy. Seriously! Sometimes you get headaches...
So finally they released some information on Azure pricing, or the Azure Business Model as it’s called… First, it’ll be commercially available from PDC09 in LA this year. Windows Azure SQL Azure .NET Services - Compute @ $0.12 / hour - Web Edition – 1GB @ $9.99 Messages @ $0.15/100K message operations...
The Windows Azure and SQL Data Services team have been busy. Workflow was removed from .NET Services until they can support Workflow 4 and Access Control and the Service Bus got minor updates. Read more about it here . The SQL Data Services team has unfortunately not released anything yet, but they did...
Last week at the SDN Event in Houten, I presented a session on Windows Azure and how you can develop applications on it. How it differs from developing for servers that run on premises. After the presentation, the question was asked if developing for Azure was a wise idea, as some stuff did not seem...
Yesterday was a great day as the SDN Event took place in Houten. The location was really great and the food never has been better. The poll on the website shows others agree with me. Thanks to those who attended my sessions. Sorry to those who wanted to know more about SQL Data Services, but know that...
I suddenly remember that Azure can supply you with analytics on how your services and storage is doing, so I wanted to check this. Some funny results came out of this. First of all, these statistics are about my speed traps application I blogged about before. It’s nice to know what it actually does....
For the 828 event next Thursday I’m developing some examples. One of them is where I get all speed traps (Flitsers in Dutch) from http://www … a source that I won’t mention here. I then want to expose these via WCF via SOAP and REST. Of course this will be so extremely popular, that I have to use Windows...
Whoops, did I break something? Update : Things got worse!
At the PDC, Windows Azure was announced as the Microsoft platform for hosting services in the cloud. Similar to Amazon's cloud services , Windows Azure will provide a mechanism for hosting solutions in the cloud. In other words, hosted in Microsoft data centers. Very interesting. Looks like a SOA...