Christian Martinez
I am a Principal Program Manager for the AppFabric CAT team. Immediately before joining Microsoft I was a member of a team that built an ESB. Before that, I spent more years than I would care to...
View ArticleA Configurable AppFabric Cache Attribute For Your WCF Services
Doing a search online for WCF and Cache will eventually lead you to a number of links* demonstrating the use of an IOperationInvoker implementation to manage caching. With AppFabric Cache rapidly...
View ArticleRunning ActiveMQ on Windows Azure: One Man’s Search for a Full Featured...
I’ve always enjoyed building systems that utilized flexible messaging platforms. Before joining Microsoft, I was a member of a small ISV team that built a commercial .NET based ESB product (a rare...
View ArticleUtilizing the Power of Startup Tasks in Your Windows Azure Web Role
Ever wanted to have something running in the background servicing your Web Role in Windows Azure? Maybe you want to preload often read but seldom written values from SQL Azure or you’d like to download...
View ArticleWindows Azure Hybrid Moments and Magical Powers of 2
So, I recently had to give a presentation at an internal training event and among the many things we promised to discuss and show was a scenario bridging cloud and on premises technologies. The content...
View ArticleWindows Azure Worker Role and BasicHttpBinding and the Loch Ness Monster
I have read so many weird things about running a WCF service in a worker role using a BasicHttpBinding that the process might as well take its place alongside Nessie, The Yeti and the Lightweight...
View ArticleWindows Azure Socket Shenanigans and Store and Forward
I am working on a project where I am responsible for the transport layer. We’ve rolled an internal only first rev of the solution out and I thought I’d share some early lesson learned. For the...
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