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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! I'll also be giving a talk on this subject at CodeMash in Ohio, Jan 7th 2016. If you're going, stop by

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Windows Azure Scheduler [part 2]

Yesterday, I posted about time zone issues with the new 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": "week"

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Windows Azure Scheduler

Microsoft announced today a new managed service for Windows Azure: The Windows Azure Scheduler. This is basically an enterprise job scheduler, such as Quartz.net, but operated as a simple managed web service. Basically, you can set up a job that will run once or periodically, and it will either