Thomas Conté's MSDN Blog
Thomas Conté's MSDN Blog - Windows Azure Cloud Architecture
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Date: 09/22/2014
Building your Ubuntu PHP development box on Azure using Vagrant
With Azure you can easily create and use a development environment in the Cloud. You can create a...
Date: 06/19/2014
Using PowerShell Remoting for disk provisioning automation
Windows Azure PowerShell cmdlets allow you to automate the construction of your infrastructure,...
Date: 10/07/2013
Advanced Cookie-based session affinity with Application Request Routing
As you probably know, the Windows Azure Platform has a built-in load-balancing service that you can...
Date: 09/19/2013
Uploading large files to Windows Azure Blob Storage using Python
In my last post, I shown some simple examples of uploading files to Blob Storage directly from the...
Date: 04/20/2013
How to interact with Windows Azure Blob Storage from Linux using Python
We have many Windows Azure SDKs that you can use on Linux to access Windows Azure Blob Storage and...
Date: 04/17/2013
Analyzing page view logs using Pig on Windows Azure HDInsight
In this article, I would like to take you through the steps to run your first Pig script on a...
Date: 04/16/2013
How to use the Windows Azure Service Management API from cURL to create Virtual Machines
Recently a partner asked me for some simples examples of using the Windows Azure Management API from...
Date: 11/29/2012
Deploying Ruby on Rails and MongoDB in Windows Azure using the Linux Command-Line Tools (Part 2)
In this second part, we are going to install MongoDB on a separate server, and get our Ruby on Rails...
Date: 11/12/2012
INVITATION: Windows Azure Open Platform Services (OSS) Summit - Paris, France - Dec 4, 2012
Learn more about how Windows Azure has helped companies realize the true value of the cloud. Windows...
Date: 11/05/2012
Windows Azure Acceleration Lab – Open Platform Services – Paris, 5th-7th December 2012
Windows Azure is an open and flexible platform that supports running applications written in any...
Date: 11/05/2012
Deploying Ruby on Rails in Windows Azure using the Linux Command-Line Tools (Part 1)
In this blog post in two parts, I will show you how to deploy a set of Linux Virtual Machines...
Date: 10/16/2012
Running Redis on a CentOS Linux VM in Windows Azure
With the new version of the Windows Azure platform we announced on June 7th, it is now possible to...
Date: 06/08/2012
Using the Windows Azure PHP SDK command-line tools on Linux
No, you are not dreaming, and yes, it works: using the latest version of the PHP SDK for Windows...
Date: 11/22/2011
Sample command-line utility to enable Storage Analytics on Windows Azure
The Windows Azure Storage team has has recently announced the availability of a widely requested...
Date: 08/11/2011
Accessing Windows Azure Blob Storage using jQuery
Did you know it was possible to access the Windows Azure Blob Storage directly from JavaScript, for...
Date: 08/10/2011
Controlling a Silverlight PivotViewer control from JavaScript with ScriptableMember
The Silverlight PivotViewer control offers a really compelling experience for exploring and sorting...
Date: 07/01/2011
Deploying the Java sample app to Windows Azure using the Starter Kit & Eclipse Plugin
In a previous post, I have presented a little sample Java web application I have written to...
Date: 06/20/2011
Java sample application for Windows Azure
I have published on GitHub the source code for a very simple Java Web application, that includes all...
Date: 06/12/2011
Running the Windows Azure Cmdlets with SDK 1.4
The Windows Azure Management Cmdlets are very useful to manage your hosted services from a...
Date: 04/06/2011
Ruby Worker Role code sample
I have posted the Visual Studio solution for the basic Ruby Worker Role that I described in my...
Date: 03/31/2011
Deploying Ruby in Windows Azure
You probably know already that the Windows Azure Platform supports many types of technologies; we...
Date: 03/24/2011
Configuring an IIS 7 front-end for Apache Tomcat, using AppCmd.exe
I wanted to automate as much as possible the process of configuring the Apache Tomcat Redirector for...
Date: 03/08/2011
Using Remote Desktop with Windows Azure and SDK 1.3
Since the 1.3 Windows Azure SDK release, you can configure a Remote Desktop connection in order to...
Date: 12/07/2010
WCF Data Services: customizing your OData feeds and making them GeoRSS compliant
Version 4.0 of the .NET Framework brings a good deal of new features to the WCF Data Services module...
Date: 09/07/2010
Using Windows Azure Drive part 2: modifying my application to use the drive
The first thing I did was to split my file access classes into a separate library, so that I could...
Date: 04/07/2010
New version of Cerebrata Cloud Storage Studio, with Page Blobs support
In my last post, I was lamenting the fact that none of the available Azure tools supported the...
Date: 03/01/2010
Using Windows Azure Drive Part 1: migrate your data to the Cloud
This month, we announced the Beta Release of Windows Azure Drive (a.k.a. XDrive), a technology that...
Date: 02/26/2010
Un apercu des interfaces de facturation de Windows Azure
Vous êtes peut-être curieux de savoir à quoi ressemblent les interfaces permettant de suivre la...
Date: 01/14/2010
Retrouvez-moi aux TechDays 2010
Le mois de février est traditionnellement riche en festivités, avec la Chandeleur (le 2), la...
Date: 01/11/2010
SQL Azure sous le capot
Une session de Jeff Currier, Senior Dev Lead. Il y a eu des changements majeurs dans le service...
Date: 11/19/2009
Windows Server AppFabric Caching (ex-“Velocity”)
Une application classique a souvent une architecture à deux niveaux, par exemple Web (ASP.NET) +...
Date: 11/18/2009
Meilleures pratiques: Windows Azure Tables & Queues
Tables Les PartitionKey sont utilisées pour répartir les données de vos tables sur plusieurs...
Date: 11/18/2009
Présent et Futur de Windows Azure
Une session présentée par Manuvir Das à la PDC09. Manuvir s’occupe des outils destinés aux...
Date: 11/17/2009
Notes Twitter de la keynote Jour 1
J’ai utilisé Twitter pour prendre des notes lors de cette keynote très riche en annonces! Voici donc...
Date: 11/17/2009
Manipuler le Table Storage Windows Azure depuis PowerShell
Lorsqu’on utilise le Table Storage pour stocker et accéder à des données, l’on a souvent besoin de...
Date: 11/16/2009
Ambiance Azure à la PDC pour les pré-sessions
Histoire de se mettre dans l’ambiance, imaginez que la totalité du centre de conférences est garni...
Date: 11/16/2009
Mise à jour des Outils Windows Azure pour Visual Studio & du SDK Windows Azure (Novembre 2009)
Juste à temps pour la PDC! Voici une version mise à jour du SDK Windows Azure ainsi que des Outils...
Date: 11/14/2009
Derniers préparatifs avant la PDC09
Et oui, fraîchement arrivé dans mon rôle d’architecte, j’ai le plaisir et le privilège de partir...
Date: 11/14/2009
La CTP Novembre de SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Studio pour gérer SQL Azure
Comme indiqué dans un court billet sur le blog de l’équipe SQL Azure, la CTP Novembre de SQL Server...
Date: 11/12/2009
Résumé des annonces Windows Azure du 5 novembre
L’heure de la PDC 2009 approchant à grand pas, les annonces se multiplient autour de la plateforme...
Date: 11/10/2009
Microsoft acquiert Teamprise pour intégrer TFS en environnement Java
Pour démarrer sur le thème Interopérabilité, Microsoft a annoncé aujourd’hui l’acquisition des...
Date: 11/09/2009
Nouveau job, nouveau blog!
Etant sur le point de rejoindre les équipes de DPE France en tant qu'Architecte, il est temps pour...
Date: 11/09/2009
AJAX SharePoint picture gallery using Highslide
Do you like Highslide? It’s a pretty neat JavaScript library that allows you to create AJAX...
Date: 04/01/2009
Import your WordPress data into Oxite
Have you tried Oxite yet? Like what you see? Maybe you have a WordPress blog you would like to...
Date: 12/12/2008