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 [...]
Mar 19 2012
Sometimes a small constraint make you scary. Though I played around with HTTP persistence connection long back, recently when I saw this header while debugging an Azure application, I want to know what is the impact of this. There are two different opinions on using HTTP Keeps-Alive header. I want to know the impact on [...]
Feb 7 2012
The example description for Hadoop Streaming on Azure has some path typo error, hence you may struggle with following error: Exception in thread “main” java.io.FileNotFoundException: File hdfs://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9000/example/apps/wc.exe does not exist. at org.apache.hadoop.util.GenericOptionsParser.validateFiles(GenericOptionsParser.java:390) at org.apache.hadoop.util.GenericOptionsParser.processGeneralOptions(GenericOptionsParser.java:287) at org.apache.hadoop.util.GenericOptionsParser.parseGeneralOptions(GenericOptionsParser.java:413) at org.apache.hadoop.util.GenericOptionsParser.
Jan 11 2012
Problem A partial view in ASP.NET MVC3 needs to be refreshed on every particular interval. Let us take a typical ASP.NET MVC3 application. In the HomeController, there is a action called “Quote” which displays funny software quote for every new request like below: The partial view “_Quote.cshtml” has nothing other than the code below This [...]
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