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Past March, Microsoft launched the preview of Azure Functions, often referred as an Amazon Lambda competitor. This being my first post about this topic, I will briefly introduce Azure Functions...

Introduction In this article we will talk about Event-Driven Architectures. We choose to use the Azure Cloud Infrastructure.Service Bus provides reliable, secure asynchronous messaging at scale. This article is written by the engineering team at CreateIT and it is intended to show you a case study in one of our projects for a client. We'll take a deeper dive into the Service Bus technology, architecture, and design choices. The post will cover both conceptual material as well as implementation details. Most importantly, we will discuss design and implementation of some of the features that provide secure and reliable messaging at scale, while minimizing operational cost. Service Bus Entities When we are working with Azure Service Bus, we can choose two Entities: Topics or Queues. You can have multiple Topics or Queues per Service Bus Namespace, but firstly you need to differ one from another. If you want a FIFO queue and only have one Consumer,...

Follow me on Twitter @lokijota. Lots of Azure and Win8 sessions. Channel 9 has several videos from TechEd US and the keynotes.

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 =...

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...

Registration for Cloud Pro PT next meeting is open. Check out the awesome agenda: 18:30 - Welcome - Snacks 19:00 - Service Fabric - The Magic Happens Here - Luís Rato 20:00 -...

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...

This year the usual TechDays event focused exclusivelly on Dev contents, and reduced to two days. I was help at IST’s campus on Tagus, a smaller but also cosier...

Yesterday we had another Developer TechRefresh at Microsoft Lisboa, where I and my colleague André Vala both presented sessions. My session was a repeat of the Build 2015 session...

I've been reading "The E Myth Revisited", by Michael Gerber. The book is all about entrepreneurs and small companies, and why they usually fail. The following quote is right...