Author celebrates being re-awarded the Microsoft MVP title, now in the Windows Azure category, and thanks the community.
Explores advanced techniques for using Windows Azure Queues, including back-off polling, handling large messages, and implementing state machines.
Speaker shares slide decks from NDC2011 Oslo conference presentations on Windows Azure architecture and internals.
Microsoft releases version 3.0 of the Windows Azure SDK for PHP, featuring a management API, logging, and autoscaling capabilities.
Explains how to use Windows Azure Traffic Manager for geographic distribution and high availability of cloud applications, with failover strategies.
Announcing the beta release of Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0.0, featuring a management API, improved logging, and DateTime object support.
A guide to manually deploying PHP applications to Windows Azure with a custom, lightweight setup, including creating package templates and configuration files.
A technical guide on implementing auto-scaling for PHP applications on the Windows Azure cloud platform, including certificate setup and a CLI tool.
A technical guide on programmatically scaling .NET applications on Windows Azure using management certificates and a custom command-line tool.
Announcing new Windows Azure CDN features, including using hosted services as origin and HTTPS support for secure content delivery.
Explains the cost benefits of dynamic scaling for cloud applications on Windows Azure, with a focus on optimizing instance usage.
A developer shares his new role as a Google App Engine API Expert for Japan, aiming to support and educate other developers in the region.
Explores the rise of cloud computing, its core concepts, and its imminent impact on federal government IT infrastructure and contracting.
A guide to using PowerShell scripts to temporarily migrate on-premise applications to Windows Azure during traffic spikes and back again.
Explores the legal and privacy implications of law enforcement's expanding digital wiretapping authority in the era of cloud computing.
An article on designing cost-effective applications for Windows Azure, focusing on the unique financial considerations of cloud computing.
Slides and code from a 2010 Remix session on building and deploying a Silverlight application to Windows Azure cloud platform.
Explains how to use Windows Azure Diagnostics with PHP to collect and analyze logs, traces, and performance counters from cloud applications.
Microsoft announces Windows Azure Companion, a tool for deploying popular PHP applications like WordPress to the Azure cloud platform.
Announcement for a free, online Windows Azure conference with three technical tracks covering high-level concepts to deep technical sessions.
