Azure

These real world experiences with Azure are now available in the Pluralsight course "Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/modernizing-websites-microsoft-azure]This is the traffic pattern that cloud pundits the world over sell the value proposition of elastic scale on: This is Have I been pwned? [https://haveibeenpwned.com] (HIBP) going from a fairly constant ~100 sessions an hour to… 12,000 an hour. Almost immediately. This is what h...

These real world experiences with Azure are now available in the Pluralsight course "Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/modernizing-websites-microsoft-azure]Almost without exception, every week I will have one if not both of the following two discussions: Discussion 1: Illusory superiority of website scale The whole idea of illusory superiority [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority] is that people get around overestimati...

These real world experiences with Azure are now available in the Pluralsight course "Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/modernizing-websites-microsoft-azure]I was rather proud of my little effort last week in producing The World’s Greatest Azure Demo [https://www.troyhunt.com/2014/03/the-worlds-greatest-azure-demo.html] and by all accounts, it’s been exceptionally well received (hey, what did you expect from the world’s greatest demo?!...

This high-level overview has now been turned into a full-blown Pluralsight course "Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/modernizing-websites-microsoft-azure]I had an opportunity recently, an opportunity to give a really impactful demonstration of Windows Azure to people who had not yet drunk from the Microsoft cloud fountain of love. These were people from the “old world” where men were men and infrastructure wasn’t a service, it was col...

These real world experiences with Azure are now available in the Pluralsight course "Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/modernizing-websites-microsoft-azure]“The Cloud” is infinite. It can scale to eternity. It’s entirely redundant and resilient to any outage. Except when it isn’t: And when it isn’t, stuff kinda stops working: Why is it always at 2am that stuff goes offline?! Hey, it happens, even though there are those who d...

These real world experiences with Azure are now available in the Pluralsight course "Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/modernizing-websites-microsoft-azure] Yesterday I wrote part 1 of this 2 part series [https://www.troyhunt.com/2014/01/azure-will-save-you-from-unexpected.html] and explained the Godzilla redundant approach of storage in Azure. Each bit of data you put into Azure storage gets replicated multiple times over within the...

These real world experiences with Azure are now available in the Pluralsight course "Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/modernizing-websites-microsoft-azure]The other day I wrote about how I’d implemented the notification service behind Have I been pwned? [https://www.troyhunt.com/2014/01/behind-notification-service-of-have-i.html] and I pointed out how I’d used SQL Azure to manage the data associated with this part of the service. Ye...

These real world experiences with Azure are now available in the Pluralsight course "Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/modernizing-websites-microsoft-azure]I’ve had a recurring discussion with a number of well-meaning people (WMPs) recently which has gone kind of like this: WMP: We’re going to build you a web site and we’re going to use Azure. Me: Awesome! So you’d use an Azure Web Site service then? WMP: No, even better, we’re goi...

These real world experiences with Azure are now available in the Pluralsight course "Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/modernizing-websites-microsoft-azure]Azure Web Sites are not your father’s hosting. The big thing you need to wrap your head around is that this model of standing up web sites moves us away from the classic paradigm of just firing up files over FTP then not thinking about the hosting again to one where serving content...

These real world experiences with Azure are now available in the Pluralsight course "Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/modernizing-websites-microsoft-azure]A few weeks ago now I launched the notification service for Have I been pwned? [https://www.troyhunt.com/2013/12/have-you-been-pwned-now-you-can-be.html] (HIBP). The premise of the service is that whilst it’s great to be able to go to the HIBP website [https://haveibeenpwned.com/]...