NDC London 2016 Distributed System Principles
In the eight fallacies, there’s one that says the topology never changes. Isn’t that covered by the other fallacies? Because we kind of try to use the network in a way that abstracts us...
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CORS on Windows Azure for jquery calls to CDN
For a website I was verifying of images existed on our Windows Azure CDN in javascript/jquery and I got a CORS error for the images. Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading...
Doesn’t take a genius to build massively scalable systems
I was just watching Bytes by MSDN where Billy Hollis interviews Ron Jacobs, Sr. Technical Evangelist for the Microsoft Server AppFabric platform. Billy Hollis asked him if it’s a big cliff to start using...
Microsoft AppFabric explained for SDN
Last Tuesday, may 18th 2010, I gave a presentation on Microsoft’s AppFabric. I explained that there are actually two themes of it; Windows Server AppFabric and Windows Azure AppFabric. They both have their own...
AppFabric : Configuration binding extension could not be found.
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...
Azure pricing
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...
SQL Data Services update
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...
Is Azure ready for production usage?
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....
SDN Event June 2009
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...
Azure and Virtual Machine hours
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,...
Dennis is an independent consultant and software architect who loves building distributed systems and the challenges they bring. What he learns he tries to share via numerous articles, blogposts, presentations and workshops.
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