Circuit Breaker for Windows Azure

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 [...]

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Developer Review – Machine Learning, Drew & John, O’Reilly

Introduction It is very interesting to read a hard core computing book from authors those are not in the computing industry.  Their area of studies really make them as right choice for writing this book.  Drew Conway studies international relations, conflicts and terrorism using tools of mathematics, statistics and computer science.  John Myles White in “how [...]

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Azure Storage Services Asynchronously in Java

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 [...]

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Developer Review – Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, Theresa Neil, O’Reilly

Introduction After her notable “Designing  Web Interfaces”, Theresa Neil come up with the UI pattern gallery for Mobile applications.  In this book, she lists out excellent set of UI design patterns  under nine different categories like Navigation, Forms, Tables & Lists, etc. In Detail This book has 10 chapters with one Appendix.  The first nine [...]

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