Azure - Code of Matt

Cloud Scalability at CodeMash and on Channel 9

I recently spent some time talking with Seth Juarez of Channel 9 about how to design your applications to scale well in the cloud.Check out the video here! [https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Cloud-Scalability-Patterns-with-Matt-Johnson] I'll also be giving a talk on this subject at CodeMash in Ohio, Jan

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Windows Azure Scheduler [part 2]

Yesterday, I posted about time zone issues with the new Windows Azure Scheduler [https://codeofmatt.com/2013/11/04/windows-azure-scheduler/]. Shortly after, I noticed a couple of additional issues that aren't time zone related at all. There is a section of the documentation that describes recurrence patterns: "recurrence": // optional { "frequency"

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Windows Azure Scheduler

Microsoft announced today a new managed service for Windows Azure: The Windows Azure Scheduler [http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/scheduler/]. This is basically an enterprise job scheduler, such as Quartz.net [http://quartznet.sourceforge.net/], but operated as a simple managed web service. Basically, you can set up a