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Ahem…. Ahem! Well, when I thought of writing about this topic, was not sure where to start, but it has to be from somewhere. I love to introduce this word from the day it entered in my life. Probably you are wondering how come a word entered in someone’s life. Don’t give pain to your brain; Let [...]

Once the traffic on any website goes beyond what could be handled by single stand alone server the natural progression is to port the website into a web farm or web garden. There is a good article that explain the difference between web farm and web garden here (http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article713-difference-between-web-farm-and-web-garden-.aspx ).   Few of the key points that [...]

Migration of existing ASP.Net web application to Windows Azure involves manual work as there is no automated tool available. This also requires you to look at several aspects of your application. However, if you already have a scalable, configurable application capable on running on a Web farm then migrating the application to cloud is not [...]

First of all let us not compare apples to oranges. SOAP is a protocol where as REST is an approach. So we can completely model my system for REST approach and then implement it using SOAP/WSDL, CORBA or any other technology. So what do we compare SOAP to? I would say right comparison will be SOAP vs POX [...]

Many a times, we come across the need of Single Sing On (SSO) across applications and one suggestion that you may often hear is: let’s use OpenId. But OpenId is not the solution for SSO. In this blog, I am going to explain where OpenId really fits and why it alone doesn’t address SSO. What is [...]

Yesterday I watched an offline video of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmar’s presentation on Windows Phone 7 Series. Yes! You read it correctly; it’s not Windows Mobile 7.0. Windows Phone 7 Series was officially unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 15th this month. As told, it is a ground up approach from Microsoft with brand [...]

Introduction The world is changing fast. Immense market pressure and cut-throat competition has changed the idiom from “build to last” to “build to change”.  This and development methodologies like Agile stress software system to be more flexible more resilient. Apart from other design and development principles “Loose Coupling” plays a lead role in flexibility. In simple [...]

Microsoft Azure is the new cloud-based computing platform from Microsoft.  Azure is a platform that includes web hosting, computing, messaging, and storage components.  In addition to the raw components in Azure, Microsoft has additional complementary services that can be composed within an Azure solution to add even more power.  These include (but are not limited [...]

In our previous blog we discussed about SaaS and how SaaS is different from Cloud Computing or ASP. In this blog we’ll discuss about SaaS architecture. There are three key differentiators that separate a well-designed SaaS application from a poorly designed one. A well-designed SaaS application is scalable, multi-tenant-efficient, and configurable. Scalable: Scaling the application means [...]

I have attended a presentation by Simon Guest from Microsoft on their cloud computing architecture. Although there was no new concept or idea introduced, Simon has provided an excellent summary on the major patterns of doing cloud computing. I have to admit that I am not familiar with Azure and this is my first time [...]