Latency test between Azure and On-Premises – Intro
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...