Recently I’ve been working with the Pattern and Practices group in a guide around Data Access focused on high scalability and availability of data driven applications. Through the book we show several DB families while analyzing their advantages and disadvantages when used in real life apps. The book is still in its final phase, but several drops have... read more
Lately, I’ve been working with the P&P group and something came up requiring to do Data Extensibility within Azure Table Storage. As this storage model is different to traditional DB schemas, we’ve found a similar approach relying on reflection and continued using the Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient assembly provided by Azure’s SDK. The problem to solve is how... read more
Microsoft Codename “Trust Services” lets several parties to encrypt/decrypt data over shared resources according to policies determined by an Administrator, where none of the parties have direct knowledge of the encryption key which is managed by a Trust Server. The Administrator, via an X509 certificate uploaded while provisioning a Trust Server, is the only one... read more