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• Windows Azure End to End Examples

  I’m fascinated by the way people learn. I’m told there are several methods people use to understand new information, from reading to watching, from experiencing to exploring. Personally, I use multiple methods of learning when I encounter a new topic, Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 29, 2012 7:45 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Concepts, Design, Developer, Development, Documentation, Downloads, How I work, Learning, Link Lists, Links, MSDN, Planning, Presentations, SQL Azure, Technet, Tips, Tutorials, Walkthroughs, Web, Windows Azure

• Big Data - A Microsoft Tools Approach

  (As with all of these types of posts, check the date of the latest update I’ve made here. Anything older than 6 months is probably out of date, given the speed with which we release new features into Windows and SQL Azure) I don’t normally Read More... Posted Monday, February 20, 2012 2:16 PM by BuckWoody | 1 Comments Filed under: Azure, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Concepts, Data, Data Professional, Design, Developer, Microsoft, SQL Azure, Storage, Windows 2008, Windows Azure

• Application Lifecycle Management Overview for Windows Azure

  Developing in Windows Azure is at once not that much different from what you’re familiar with in on-premises systems, and different in significant ways. Because of these differences, developers often ask about the specific process to develop and deploy Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 07, 2012 7:58 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Application Architecture, Azure, Best Practices, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Concepts, Design, Developer, Development, Links, Planning, Process, System Center Operations Manager, Tips, Windows Azure

• The Data Scientist

  A new term - well, perhaps not that new - has come up and I’m actually very excited about it. The term is Data Scientist, and since it’s new, it’s fairly undefined. I’ll explain what I think it means, and why I’m excited about it. In general, I’ve found Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2011 8:00 AM by BuckWoody | 1 Comments Filed under: Azure, Business Intelligence, Career, Concepts, Data, Data Professional, DBA, Developer, SQL Azure, SQL Server, Windows Azure

• Big Data and the Cloud - More Hype or a Real Workload?

  Last week Microsoft announced several new offerings for “Big Data” - and since I’m a stickler for definitions, I wanted to make sure I understood what that really means. What is “Big Data”? What size hard drive is that? After all, my laptop has 1TB of Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 18, 2011 7:57 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Use Cases, Career, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Concepts, Conferences, Data, Data Professional, DBA, Developer, Microsoft, PASS, Policy Based Management, SQL Azure, SQL Server, SQLServer, Storage, Windows Azure

• Creating a Distributed Computing System Using a Windows Azure Queue

  The Windows Azure Queue component, like all Windows Azure components (Roles, Storage, App Fabric, SQL Azure) can be used by itself or with other Windows Azure components. That’s why I refer to Windows Azure as “Distributed Computing” rather than “cloud”. Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 11, 2011 7:12 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Use Cases, Cloud Computing, Computing, Concepts, Design, Developer, Development, Storage, Windows Azure

• Plan for Diagnostics in Cloud Computing From the Git-Go

  “Git-Go” is something we say in the South that means “right at the start”. I’ve seen several applications for on-premise systems that don’t have much in the way of diagnostics - the developers rely on a debugger, the event logs on the server and client Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 06, 2011 7:11 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Best Practices, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Concepts, Design, Developer, Development, Error Codes, Link Lists, Monitoring, Testing, Troubleshooting, Windows Azure

• SQL Azure Use Case: Shared Storage Application

  This is one in a series of posts on when and where to use a distributed architecture design in your organization's computing needs. You can find the main post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/01/18/windows-azure-and-sql-azure-use-cases.aspx Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:33 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Concepts, Data, Data Professional, Design, Developer, Disaster Recovery, Learning Plan, Platform Independence, SQL Azure, SQL Server, SSIS, Windows Azure

• SQL Azure Use Case: Web-based Applications

  This is one in a series of posts on when and where to use a distributed architecture design in your organization's computing needs. You can find the main post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/01/18/windows-azure-and-sql-azure-use-cases.aspx Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:38 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Application Architecture, Azure, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Concepts, Data Professional, Design, Developer, Development, Learning, SQL Azure, Windows Azure