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Authorization request signing for Windows Azure Storage REST API from PowerShell

Recently, while working on one of the Windows Azure migration engagement, we were need to have a simple and portable utility scripts that manipulate on various Windows Azure Storage (WAS) services APIs like “Get all blob metadata details from selected containers”.  This is further enabled to perform various manipulations for the business. There are various [...]

Book Review: Cloud Architecture Patterns by Bill Wilder – O’Reilly

Bill Wilder who is a MVP in Windows Azure has taken nice initiative in the cloud computing space with cloud architecture patterns.  Good collections. Cloud computing relatively new and evolving technology, where we are facing so many recurred problems when dealing with application migration.  Bill introduces the basic tenants of cloud computing and design principles [...]

WAS StartCopyFromBlob operation and Transaction Compensation

The latest Windows Azure SDKs v1.7.1 and 1.8  have a nice feature called “StartCopyFromBlob” that enables us to instruct Windows Azure data center to perform cross-storage accounts blob copy.  Prior to this, we need to download chunks of blob content then upload into the destination storage account.  Hence, “StartCopyFromBlob” is more efficient in terms of [...]

Azure ServiceBus Message Payload Serialization using protobuf

Choices are between ready made coffee maker and make it ourselves available in Windows Azure kitchen.  As long as we want cappuccino, Windows Azure .NET libraries are good to go in terms of productivity and maintainability.  Sometimes, we may need to prepare blended iced cappuccino.  REST API (the actual service interface to Windows Azure services) [...]