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For questions relating to Windows Azure cloud hosting technologies

Windows Azure is Microsoft's cloud hosting platform. At a basic level, like most cloud hosting platforms, it provides virtual machines and data storage based in datacenters around the world, charging for the use of resources. As time goes on, Microsoft is adding new capabilities to broaden its infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service capabilities, such as web servers, message bus and distributed cache. These services are all charged at different levels.

References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Azure http://www.windowsazure.com/

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Windows Azure vs Amazon EC2 vs Google App Engine

From a developer point of view which platform would you consider for a large social web application? If you could provide some details on what you consider to be the strengths of which alternative it would be great.
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Is cloud computing just a way of renting resources?

The company I work at recently hosted a web service in Windows Azure and announced that. Now trade online magazines say lots of meaningless stuff like "company X moves to the cloud", "company X drops desktops for the cloud", etc. Looks like there're…
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DB migration and Azure deployment slots

I'm planning to push a new web application to an Azure Web App Service (former Azure Website). I'd like to make use of the deployment slots to be able to test my deployment before pushing it to production. That's all fine as long as there is no DB…
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Caching Strategy: WCF Buffer pooling and size

I am currently trying to understand the best configuration for caching. I am using Azure In-Role caching (currently Colocated, but Dedicated at a later point) in a Web Api 2 application in .NET 4.5.1. The transportProperties element in…
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Shared Cache - Invalidation Best Practice

I'd like to know what would be a better approach to invalidate/update cache objects. Prerequisites Having remote memcached server (serving as cache for multiple applications) All servers are hosted by azure (affinity regions, same data…
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Purpose of the csx folder in Azure projects?

I'm fairly new to Azure but I noticed that Visual Studio auto-creates the following folders (among others) ... //bin //obj //csx <== ... Now the bin and obj folders are fairly standard.…
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Log and trace with Azure Application Insights only (instead of combining NLog and AppInsights) in Asp MVC

I was going through several blog posts at stackoverflow and programmers and I am still a bit confused. You can install NLog (or some other logging lib) and start logging quite fast and then you can install the application insights and an adapter to…
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Cloud service and IM protocol advice, for a backend to group chat mobile app

Overview I’m going to develop an app on Android and iOS. It will allow users to set up group ‘chat rooms’ and talk on chat rooms set up by other users. The service needs to be highly scalable, such that it could accommodate a massive increase in…
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What's the best implementation for offline mobile app synchronization?

We have an Android app written as a Cordova AngularJS SPA which has now grown so that we need to add some work to it meaning we have to improve the synchronization part of the app. The app is mainly used offline. I can't give details of the…
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Directly query database vs. Using web service

I'm a junior programmer, am working on a WPF application that will deploy to ~50 users. We basically are streamlining all of his charting/tracking of client data. Each user will probably make about 25 read/writes a day. I have everything working…
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Does it make sense to use both Cosmos DB and Elasticsearch?

My app uses Cosmos DB to store data. I have a requirement to support full-text search, which Cosmos does not provide out of the box. One of the recommendations was to use Elasticsearch, and I have been trying that out. The more I try it out, the…
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Getting AWS SNS Messages into Azure Service Bus

I have a similar question to one already asked about SQS to Azure Service Bus - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51650073/consume-aws-sqs-and-publish-to-azure-service-bus. I want to get messages from AWS SNS (hosted by another party) into an…
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Azure CloudServices: Having more than just staging and production slots?

We're using Azure Cloud Services and would like to have a workflow where deployments flow as Cloud Service #1: testing/QA => staging => production Currently Azure Cloud Services only have staging and production environments where you can swap the…
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Is it practical to use Twitter for service logs?

Recently my boss suggested that we post logs of our service that is hosted on Windows Azure into twitter. His idea is that it's conveniently readable and if Azure cloud fails logs persist. He also said, lots of people do this, I Googled and couldn't…
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Does iCloud use windows Azure?

I just read this article on iCloud's use of Azure: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/is-apple-really-using-windows-azure-to-power-icloud/9687 Anyone know if there is any truth in it?
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