I created these, prospectively for use in presentations or whatever may call for something of this sort. Since others may be talking about Windows Azure and the innards of the system also, I thought I’d contribute these for free use on the web. I don’t even really care if you attribute me (even though it... Continue reading →

This is a write up I’ve put together of how the roles in Windows Azure work. As far as I know, this is all correct – but if there are any Windows Azure Team Members out there that wouldn’t mind providing some feedback about specifics or adding to the details I have here – please... Continue reading →

Cloud Architecture is becoming more and more relevant in the software industry today. A lot of efforts are becoming less about software and more about cloud software. The whole gamut of cloud technology; platform, service, infrastructure, or platforms on platforms are growing rapidly in number. The days you didn’t need to know what the cloud... Continue reading →

I’ve been working through a project recently that I ended up creating an interesting abstraction of an assembly/classes between multiple web services projects. I wrote about it initially in Aggregated Web Services Pt I. In this blog entry is going to cover a few things, based on a full end-to-end implementation of a project from... Continue reading →

I’ve been working through an architecture scenario recently. This is what I have so far. Multiple external web services, some SOAP and some REST, and some data sources in a SQL Server Database, Azure Table Storage, and flat files of some sort. All of these sources need to be accessed by a web site for... Continue reading →