Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #6)

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here are the highlights from last week.

• CloudCover Episode 70 – Windows Azure Demos with Steve Marx (posted Feb. 10.)]
• MongoDB, Windows Azure (and Node.js) blog post by Neil Mackenzie (posted Feb. 5.)
• Exporting XML from LightSwitch Part 2 – Azure blog post by Regan Ashworth (posted Feb. 3.)
• Azure Service Bus:  Connectivity at a Cloud Scale by Brendon Birdoes, SSWUG (posted Feb. 10.)  (Thanks to @MichaelCollier for the tweet.)
• New Article on MSDN:  Real World: Considerations When Choosing a Web Role Instance Size: How small should I go? (Thanks to @seattlejoel for the tweet.)
• What I Learned Building a Startup on Microsoft Cloud Services:  Part 1 – Introduction blog post by Liam Cavanagh (posted Feb. 6. 
• Connection Pool Fragmentation:  Use Federations and You Won’t Need to Learn About These Nasty Problems That Come with Sharding! blog post by Cihan Biyikoglu,  SQL Azure program manager at Microsoft (posted Feb. 9.)
• Building a Massively Scalable Platform for Consumer Devices on Windows Azure by Bruno Terkaly and Ricardo Villalobos, MSDN Magazine (Feb. 2012.)
• Forecast:  Cloudy – Windows Azure Deployment Domains by Joseph Fultz, MSDN Magazine (Feb. 2012.)
• Tips for Replicating Data in The Cloud by Rutrell Yasin, Government Computer News (posted Feb. 9.)
• Microsoft Ireland and CJ Fallon to Offer Schoolbooks through the Cloud by Laura O’Brien, SiliconRepublic (posted Feb. 9.)

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Himanshu