A Brief Tour of Azure IoT Hub
I’m preparing some material for a webinar on Azure IoT in mid-October (you are signed up, aren’t you?) and thought I’d do a quick intro to the basic concepts and […]
Migrating Your Enterprise App (And It’s Relational Model) to the Cloud – A Pragmatic Approach
In my last post I discussed the pervasive issue of relational modeling as a (poor) substitute for proper domain modeling, the reasons why (almost) everyone continues to build software that […]
Migrating Your Enterprise Application to the Cloud – Your Database Isn’t the Problem, Your Data Model Is
For CTOs looking to squeeze new life out of legacy enterprise applications, the cloud offers tantalizing prospects. Pushbutton scalability, reduced capital costs, outsourcing of non-core IT functions, potentially greater monitoring […]
Devlink 2014
I just got home from Devlink (unfortunately I had to bail out a day early) but I wanted to take a moment to say how impressed I am with the […]
Here Come the .NET Containers
So I was watching Twitter this morning in anticipation of interesting news from TechEd 2014. TechEd isn’t traditionally known as the place where Microsoft drops a lot of big, bold […]
Securing Node.js Applications With OAuth2 and Azure
I’m a big fan of both node.js for building web-enabled servers and of Windows Microsoft Azure for hosting them… and the combination of the two is pretty compelling, if not […]
Initializing the Microsoft Azure SDK 2.3 Storage Emulator
Last night I worked my way through some dev tool updates and happened to install both SQL Server 2014 and the new Azure SDK 2.3. I prefer to host the […]
Five Reasons ASP.NET Developers Shouldn’t Worry About Node
I devoted my last post to reasons why ASP.NET developers should pay attention to Node.js. Taking a queue from high school debate team, and because no technology decision (or opinion) […]
Five Reasons ASP.NET Developers Should Care About Node.js
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or perhaps in a van down by the river) you may have noticed that Node.js is kind of a big deal. Since its […]