May 6 2012
No application is in island. Every application needs to interact with other applications located in remote, or consumes data stored in remote. Your application should be cautious and handle instability situations while interacting with these remote endpoints. Various practices and patterns are available for implementing a stable system. Michael T. Nygard specifies following stability patterns [...]
Apr 20 2012
When performing I/O bound operation, the program should use asynchronous approach. This is particularly important when you access the Azure storage services. As of now, Azure managed libraries for .NET and Java do not support asynchronous APIs. Instead, by using underlying run time’s asynchronous programming approaches along with Azure storage services REST API makes you [...]
Apr 6 2012
This post discusses the performance benefits of effectively using .NET TPL when doing I/O bound operations. Intent When there is a need for non-synchronous programming pattern (asynchronous and/or parallel) in Azure applications, the pattern of choice must be based on the target VM size we have chosen for that app and the type of operation [...]
A polyglot programmer, Windows Azure app architect, blogger, speaker and technical consultant. Working as Cloud Architect at Aditi Technologies.