Latency test between Azure and On-Premises – Intro

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  In these series of posts, we’re going to compare different ways of connecting to Azure. We’ll setup a web service and a client. We’re going to see which architecture...

BizTalk Server 2010 R2 TAP

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The TAP for the next version of BizTalk, strangely pre-named “2010 R2” (instead of 2013) is open for nominations here. Of the list of new features, I am especially...

Straight A’s in WebPagetest with Umbraco

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Before launching a new website, there's a checklist I go through, to make sure that everything is ready. One of the items in my checklist is to test the...

Transitioning Dev Environments Azure IaaS

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The internal policy at Create It is to use Virtual Machines to do all the coding, with different environments for Web development, BizTalk, SharePoint, etc. My personal dev-pc is...

Latency test between Azure and On-Premises – Part Five

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Point-to-site. PTS for now on. PTS is a way of connecting single clients (machines) to a gateway in Azure, without connecting the entire infrastructure to it. In this case,...

Azure FTP For SharePoint @ GitHub

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After a couple of failed starts, I finally decided to start this project. The idea came to me when the first version of the Relay was launched in the...

Cloud Computing: recommended Reading

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Good information via Pat Helland’s weblog, on UC Berkeley’s Paper “Above the Clouds: a Berkeley View of Cloud Computing”.

GASp – Journey to the center of the cloud

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Last night I delivered a presentation in a GASP meeting on cloud computing, social networking, impacts on architecture, development, and even society. A conceptual and high-level session, destined to...

Azure Blob Storage Metadata 400 Bad Request

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I was getting a 400 Bad Request when inserting blobs in Azure Blob Storage because I was setting metadata with non-ASCII characters. // Retrieve storage account from connection string. CloudStorageAccount storageAccount =...

Send Email In AWS Using SQS, SNS and Lambda Function

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This post explains how to build an AWS infrastructure so you can send an email from AWS to a subscribed email account. We will use SQS, SNS and Lambda...