Who here has tried Windows Azure platform?

[RayLopez99]

I've played around with it. Good for business apps.

RL

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I've played around with it. Good for business apps.

Did you work with the .NET, SQL, SharePoint, Dynamics or Live
flavor?

Arne

 

[RayLopez99]

Did you work with the .NET, SQL, SharePoint, Dynamics or Live
flavor?

Arne

I just did a Hello World application with the .NET flavor. But I want
to use it for SQL too. The thing is: is everything encoded in
Azure? Or just the methods names (so that the methods are default
private rather than public as in WCF)? If everything is encoded (like
HTTPS) then I think it will be a performance hit. I can't quite
figure it out from the documentation.

What flavor are you working on Arne?

RL

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I just did a Hello World application with the .NET flavor. But I want
to use it for SQL too. The thing is: is everything encoded in
Azure? Or just the methods names (so that the methods are default
private rather than public as in WCF)? If everything is encoded (like
HTTPS) then I think it will be a performance hit. I can't quite
figure it out from the documentation.

It is not clear to me exactly what you are asking.

I assume you mean encrypted not encoded.

But what?

What flavor are you working on Arne?

I have not worked with Azure yet.

It is on my TODO list. But that is a very long list.

Arne

 

[RayLopez99]

It is not clear to me exactly what you are asking.

I assume you mean encrypted not encoded.

But what?

Yes, sorry, I meant encrypted not encoded.

I have not worked with Azure yet.

It is on my TODO list. But that is a very long list.

Same here. I have a feeling Azure is not stable yet (beta, like Vista
was beta to Windows 7, like Visual Studio is *always* beta!); typical
software tactic, common with not just Microsoft but others. But I'll
learn more next year.

What do you do now, what projects (generally), what language, what
IDE? I just did some web site pages and got paid for them--about $1k
each website. I am not going to quit my real job though--it took
about a week for each, too much work, not enough money. The graphic
arts were the hardest part, and I was an artist when I was a teen so
it's not a problem for me, but it was still time consuming. Also I'm
doing some ADO.NET stuff for a business, and for that I'll get paid
more than $1k. But outside the USA a little money goes further, as
you know. I do it for fun more than money.

Happy New Year,

RL

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Same here. I have a feeling Azure is not stable yet (beta, like Vista
was beta to Windows 7, like Visual Studio is *always* beta!); typical
software tactic, common with not just Microsoft but others. But I'll
learn more next year.

That is not my impression.

Some things have been put into production on Azure and seems to
run fine.

Arne

 

[James A. Fortune]

I've played around with it.  Good for business apps.

RL

It might be good for very large business apps. From my understanding,
mostly based on sessions ES04 and ES07 of PDC 08 (I haven't viewed the
PDC 09 sessions yet), SQL Server Data Services should be used if
joins, foreign keys, or other database rich operations are required.
The Azure platform is more for scalability of table data. Such scale
is not needed for my work. At the time of those presentations, up to
255 properties (like fields) were available per cloud table, but only
a single key could really be used for indexing. The presenters
indicated that Microsoft had plans to implement the use of multiple
properties for indexing. Apparently, there exists an API that allows
you to simulate an Azure cloud using a local machine.

James A. Fortune
(e-mail address removed)