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Data Driven Apps – State of the Art Techniques

Published by mkrikorian on June 4th, 2013 12:04 pm under Availability, DB, Data Driven, Data structures, Distributed databases, Distributed systems, NoSQL, Scalability
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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
Windows Azure Media Services (WAMS) Asset Replicator published on CodePlex!

Published by mconverti on June 4th, 2013 11:55 am under Projects, Windows Azure Media Services
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Last Friday, the Windows Azure Media Services (WAMS) Asset Replicator Tool was published on CodePlex. This tool allows you to replicate WAMS assets across two Media Services accounts. In the most common scenarios this capability is used to mirror a library of streaming assets across accounts in two different Azure data centers to enable geo-diverse... read more
scriptcs TCP client and server Script Pack: ScriptCs.Net

Published by Damian Schenkelman on June 3rd, 2013 2:22 am under Script Packs, scriptcs
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Last week, I gave a brown bag talk at Southworks about scriptcs and one of the things I explained in depth were script packs. If this is the first time you hear about scriptcs be sure to check: The Github Project The Blog Hanselman’s blog post The wiki There is a lot of information out... read more
Enjoy Windows Azure Media Services in the Comfort of your own Console

Published by Ezequiel Jadib on May 31st, 2013 4:29 pm under Emerging Technology, Microsoft Media Platform, Windows Azure Media Services, scriptcs
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A few days ago Damian Schenkelman did a brown bag about scriptcs. Right after he explained Script Packs I asked if there was something already in place for Azure Media Services. “Not yet”, he said. Thus I decided to start authoring one given two main motivations: To learn more about scriptcs. My past experiences in... read more
Taking NDepend 4 Code Query over LINQ for a spin with Needle Container

Published by Damian Schenkelman on May 25th, 2013 9:14 pm under NDepend, Needle
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Some time ago I blogged (here and here) about Needle , a dependency injection container I used to work on when procrastinating. As I’m planning to spend some time working on updates I thought it would be a good idea to use NDepend 4 and get a sense of possible improvements I could tackle before... read more
The elephant, the cloud and the cmdlet

Published by ajezierski on May 14th, 2013 4:36 pm under Big Data, HDInsight, Windows Azure
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The Hadoop SDK for .NET is evolving rapidly. I first checked it out a few months ago and the progress since then has been amazing. It now contains several client libraries (WebHDFS, WebHCat (aka “templeton”), submission and management of Oozie workflows and Ambari management and more). As part of our current project, while looking for... read more
Introduction to HCatalog, Pig scripts and heavy burdens

Published by ajezierski on April 9th, 2013 12:33 am under Big Data, Emerging Technology, HDInsight
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As an eager developer craving for Big Data knowledge, you’ve probably come across many tutorials that explain how to create a simple hive query or pig script, I have. Sounds simple enough, right? Now imagine your solution has evolved from one ad-hoc query, to a full library of hive, pig and Map/reduce scripts, scheduled jobs,... read more
How to easily unit test MVC routes using Fakes

Published by mkrikorian on March 15th, 2013 12:07 pm under C#, Fakes, MVC
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In this short post I will show you how you can easily test your MVC routes using Fakes as mocking framework. Besides there is a lot of mocking frameworks you can choose to unit test your code, Fakes provides you the ability to mock almost any class within the framework, not just interfaces or virtual... read more
Developing Big Data Solutions on Windows Azure, the blind and the elephant

Published by ajezierski on March 15th, 2013 11:35 am under Big Data, Emerging Technology, HDInsight, Hadoop on Azure, Projects
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What is a Big Data solution to you? Whatever you are thinking of, I cannot think of a better example than the story of the blind and the elephant. ”I’m a dev, It’s about writing some Map/Reduce awesomeness”, or “I’m a business analyst, I just want to query data in Excel!”, ”I’m a passer-by, but... read more
p&p Kona Guidance for Windows Store apps: Documentation released!

Published by mvazquez on March 12th, 2013 4:24 am under Patterns & Practices, Windows 8, Windows Store LOB apps
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In addition to the reusable components and the reference app, we are releasing an extensive documentation explaining some of the best practices for developing Windows Store LOB apps. Below you can find our proposed table of contents of the project docs (items in bold are included in the latest drop). Getting started with Kona Key... read more

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Data Driven Apps – State of the Art Techniques

Windows Azure Media Services (WAMS) Asset Replicator published on CodePlex!

scriptcs TCP client and server Script Pack: ScriptCs.Net

Enjoy Windows Azure Media Services in the Comfort of your own Console

Taking NDepend 4 Code Query over LINQ for a spin with Needle Container

The elephant, the cloud and the cmdlet

Introduction to HCatalog, Pig scripts and heavy burdens

How to easily unit test MVC routes using Fakes

Developing Big Data Solutions on Windows Azure, the blind and the elephant

p&p Kona Guidance for Windows Store apps: Documentation released!

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