Did you hear about Waterfall? No, I don’t mean the oldschool development practice of the NASA to ensure that a rocket-powered aircraft will fly in space forever. I mean Waterfall charts: These charts do add some value for business users as they are different. They do not just show data, they show data with a […]
Category: Cloud
Azure Service Bus: Massive count of listeners and senders
We recently went away from Azure Cloud Queue to migrate to Azure Service Bus. There had been a lot of reasons. One of the most important facts had been that we chosen Azure Cloud Queue due to performance. When we started decvelopment in a project with that technology middle of 2014, this was true. Let’s say […]
The natural borders of Azure Cloud Queue: Taking the step to Service Bus
As stated in The natural border of azure cloud queue scalability we experienced pretty relevant issues with Cloud Queues. We believed we solved the issues, though. As a result of too heavy usage of exactly one Storage Account, we devided to split the traffic – which actually really had too much to do – to several accounts to balance the work load. The […]
The natural borders of Azure cloud queue scalability
UPDATE: Maybe you are interesting how the story went on. Have a look at Natural borders of Cloud Queue: Taking the step to Service Bus. Programming for the cloud is always experimental. This can be quite scary when unexpected things happen in a production environment. Why? It is pretty hard to understand all the environment details plus […]
Azure computing: Keep an eye onto the big picture
The day before my vacation me and my team had probably everything in place to let our cloud solution run for two weeks. The only missing peace was the “initial load”. As this is a cache based solution, data from a source system must be preloaded into the system as a whole. You may think […]
Azure: Unable to log on to Remote Desktop
It is a small thing, but it kept me from working. When working in the Azure environment, a remote desktop user can be created to anytime connect to the “real” machine via remote desktop. When trying to do so, I got this message: An authentication error has occurred. The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted […]
Debugging Azure Worker and Web Roles
I am currently working onto a project that targets Azure Cloud as data storage as well as using the strong infrastructure capabilities for scaling services up for up to 2000 calls a second. While we are not ready for that massive amount of calls, me and my team put the functionality together. When doing so, […]