I wonder if one of the things that keeps some developers from constantly playing with shiny cloud technologies is a nagging concern that they’ll accidentally ring up a life-altering usage bill. We’ve probably all heard horror stories of someone who accidentally left an Azure web application running for a long time or kept an Amazon […]
July 22, 2010
Up until now, your only option for managing SQL Azure cloud databases was using an on-premise SQL Server Management Console and pointing to your cloud database. The SQL Azure team has released a CTP of “Houston” which is a web-based, Silverlight environment for doing all sorts of stuff with your SQL Azure database. Instead of […]
July 9, 2010
One StreamInsight usage scenario frequently discussed by the product team involves sending a subset of events (or aggregated complex events) to the Enterprise Service Bus for additional processing and distribution. As I’ve mentioned before, StreamInsight doesn’t come with any out-of-the-box adapters. So if you want to make this usage scenario a reality, it’s up to […]
July 6, 2010
One of my more popular tools has been the BizTalk SSO Configuration Data Storage Tool. At the time I built that, there was no easy way to store and manage Single Sign On (SSO) applications that were used purely for secure key/value pair persistence. Since that time, a few folks (that I know of) have […]
July 1, 2010
Happy July and welcome to the 22nd interview with a connected technology thought leader. Today we’re talking to Saravana Kumar who is an independent consultant, BizTalk MVP, blogger, and curator of the handy BizTalk 24×7 and BizTalk BlogDoc communities. The UK seems to be a hotbed for my interview targets, and I should diversify more, […]
July 26, 2010
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