In a previous post I briefly introduced Hadoop and described a brief overview of its components. In this post I’ll put my money where my mouth is and actually do stuff with Hadoop on Azure. Again, one step at a time. So I went to the market and found some free demographics data available from... read more
Seriously. There’s an elephant in the room, so I’ve no choice but to talk about it. I’m new to Big Data and newer to Hadoop on Azure, so this post (and future ones as well) will serve as an introduction to the underlying concepts of big data and my experience on using Hadoop on Azure,... read more
I am probably going to compare apples and oranges in this post, with a slight bias towards oranges. Yes, I like fruit. I also like SQL Azure Data Sync and how it makes data synchronization tasks a breeze. You install your agent, register your database, go to the portal, setup your sync groups, conflict resolution... read more
Windows Azure Service Bus is a great way to achieve cross boundary communications. It provides powerful features which we are not going to discuss in this post. However, we will focus on a small scenario revolving around Service Bus Queues, ACS, and dirty players. Clemens Vasters posted a video explaining how to secure Service Bus... read more
During the last few months we have been working on the third part of the Windows Azure Guidance series that revolves around integrating cloud and on premise applications. The guide explains how the fictitious company TreyResearch achieves the objective of moving some of the applications to the cloud, while hosting others on premise and the... read more
Using filters in Windows Azure Service Bus subscriptions is very useful when it comes to message categorization. When setting up a subscription, you can specify a Filter object that will be responsible of allowing messages that match a specified criteria. In this post I will focus on how we can set multiple CorrelationFilter objects for... read more