Loading it on with Event Grid
Last week, I had one of those moments that makes me really appreciate my role at Microsoft. I was fortunate enough to spend 2 days working along side colleagues and members of the Event Grid product...
View ArticleAzure Event Grid
On January 30th, Azure launched a new service that, at least in Azure terms, represents a bit of a paradigm shift. This new service, the Azure Event Grid, is unlike anything else that exists in Azure,...
View ArticleAzure Logic Apps, Functions, and Service Bus
Here we are yet again. Me writing something on this blog if for no other reason then to document something I learned. There’s no real narrative behind this one other than I built another POC for a...
View ArticleA JavaScript based Windows 10 UWP & Notification Hub
Here we are, back at the blog again as promised. Admittedly, this is a week or so later then I had planned, but… best laid plans and of mice and men and all that. I’ll blame three straight weeks of...
View ArticleAzure’s new Event Hub
Over the past few months, I had the good fortune to be accepted to present at ThatConference in Wisconsin and CloudDevelop in Ohio. I count myself even more fortunate because at the time I submitted my...
View ArticleShared Access Signatures with Azure Service Bus
Sorry for the silence folks. Microsoft’s fiscal year end was over June 31st and I started on a new team on July 1st. While July and August are usually great periods for folks like me to get some extra...
View ArticleAzure File Depot
It’s been a little while since my last update. BUILD 2014 has come and gone and my group, DPE (Developer Platform Evangelism), has been re-branded to DX (Developer Experience). Admittedly a name is a...
View ArticleService Bus and “pushing” notifications
I put quotes around the word ‘pushing’ in the title of this post because this isn’t a pure “push” scenario but more of a ‘solicited push’. Check out this blog post where Clemens Vasters discusses the...
View ArticleAzure Tools for Visual Studio 1.4 August Update–Year of Azure Week 5
Good evening folks. Its 8pm on Friday August 5th, 2011 (aka international beer day) as I write this. Last week’s update to my year of Azure series was weak, but this week’s will be even lighter. Just...
View ArticleAzure AppFabric Queues and Topics
The code used in this demo refers to a depricated version of the Topics API. Please refer to this post for an example that is compatible with the 1.6 or 1.7 Windows Azure SDK’s. First some old...
View ArticleEnter the Azure AppFabric Management Service
Before I dive into this update, I want to get a couple things out in the open. First, I’m an Azure AppFabric fan-boy. I see HUGE potential in this often overlooked silo of the Azure Platform. The PDC10...
View ArticleService Bus and “pushing” notifications
I put quotes around the word ‘pushing’ in the title of this post because this isn’t a pure “push” scenario but more of a ‘solicited push’. Check out this blog post where Clemens Vasters discusses the...
View ArticleAzure Tools for Visual Studio 1.4 August Update–Year of Azure Week 5
Good evening folks. Its 8pm on Friday August 5th, 2011 (aka international beer day) as I write this. Last week’s update to my year of Azure series was weak, but this week’s will be even lighter. Just...
View ArticleAzure AppFabric Queues and Topics
The code used in this demo refers to a depricated version of the Topics API. Please refer to this post for an example that is compatible with the 1.6 or 1.7 Windows Azure SDK’s. First some old...
View ArticleEnter the Azure AppFabric Management Service
Before I dive into this update, I want to get a couple things out in the open. First, I’m an Azure AppFabric fan-boy. I see HUGE potential in this often overlooked silo of the Azure Platform. The PDC10...
View ArticleAzure AppFabric – A bridge going anywhere
Yeah, I know. I said my next posts were going to be more articles about the Windows Azure Diagnostics. Course I also thought I’d have those up a week after the first. Life has just been too hectic of...
View Article.NET Service Bus (Part 2 continued) – Hands on Queues
Back again in rapid succession and feeing very strong. Over the weekend I smoked a bunch of turkey (most yummy) and also finally made my first weight loss goal. How did I decide to celebrate these...
View Article.NET Service Bus (Part2) – Hands on with Queues
Its been an unforgivably long time since I wrote Part 1 of my series of hands articles on with the .NET Service Bus. I’ve tried to convince myself it was because I was confused by the WCF nature of...
View Article.NET Service Bus (Part 1) – Hands On with Relays
I’m on the road this week and had expected to get more accomplished then I did sitting in the office. I started drafting this blog post at 5:30am last Sunday but opted to start over completely and...
View Article.NET Services – July CTP Update
The .NET Services team has updated their blog with details on the July CTP update. Aside from an outtage on July 7th, here are some highlights: Queues/Routers are being wiped, if you want data saved...
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