Welcome to the 13th edition (on a Friday!) of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Let me know what you think about these posts via comments below, or on Twitter @WindowsAzure. Here are the highlights from last week.
Articles and Blog Posts
- Getting Started with the Windows Azure Cache by @bhitney (posted April 4)
- Identifying the Tenant in Multi-Tenant (Windows) Azure Applications – Part 1 by @smorgo (posted April 4)
- Java Also Loves the Cloud by @fharper (posted April 3)
- Bill Wilder Does Hadoop on (Windows) Azure on .NET Rocks (internet radio show) (posted April 3)
- CQRS on Windows Azure by @ploeh, MSDN Magazine (April 2012)
- Quantifying and Avoiding Risk on Windows Azure by @rikp (posted Mar. 31)
Upcoming Events, and User Group Meetings
- April 9: CloudCamp Moscow – Moscow, Russia
- April 14: Twin Cities Code Camp – Minneapolis, MN
- April 26: Sales@night: (Windows) Azure – Brussels, Belgium
- April 28: Vancouver TechFest 2012 – Burnaby, BC, Canada
- May 11: Windows Azure Bootcamp – London, UK
- May 18: Windows Azure Bootcamp – Liverpool, UK
- June 11-14: Microsoft TechEd North America 2012 – Orlando, FL
- June 22: Microsoft UK Cloud Day – London, UK
- June 26-29: Microsoft TechEd Europe – Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Ongoing: Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts – Online
Recent Windows Azure Forums Discussion Threads
- VM Role Computer Name – 444 views, 6 replies
- Push Mechanism for Topic Subscription – 894 views, 23 replies
- How to Thwart a Denial of Service Attack – 614 views, 6 replies
- Table Storage timeouts, not handled by client side timeout – 627 views, 8 replies
Send us articles that you’d like us to highlight, or content of your own that you’d like to share. And let us know about any local events, groups or activities that you think we should tell the rest of the Windows Azure community about. You can use the comments section below, or talk to us on Twitter @WindowsAzure.
Have a great weekend!
Himanshu