Many mistakes in my previous post? (more on Azure worker role)
I’ve got a comment from a user calling himself “AzureBizAndTech” to my previous post . Unfortunately the comment was deleted in in DDJ’s move to a new blogging platform over the weekend. The person, who apparently works in Microsoft (per his first point- see below) posted the comment with the title “Many mistakes in this post”. Below are his points and my...
Read MoreAzure Worker Role is not there yet
Microsoft’s furray into the Cloud service providers (a.k.a. Azure) tries to play both in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) playgrounds (Kate Craig provides good definitions of IaaS and PaaS if you need them). Microsoft’s IaaS offering (though it also has some PaaS attributes ) is pretty simple and straight forward with a (yet in beta)...
Read MoreAzure Page Blobs vs. Liskov Substitution Principle
“Liskov Substitution Principle” or LSP is one of the basic principles for proper object orientation. LSP definition is: “Let q(x) be a property provable about objects x of type T. Then q(y) should be true for objects y of type S where S is a subtype of T.” In plain english that means that if CloudPageBlob inherits from CloudBlob and...
Read MoreAzure open day presentations
Yesterday Alon Fliess and myself gave an open day @ Microsoft Israel on Azure cloud. Alon opened with an introduction to Azure Cloud and the bits and pieces that make it. The next presentation went into details on Azure storage. I had two presentations as well. In the first, I talked about Architectural aspects of moving to Azure (how does cloud in genreal/azure affect the Fallacies of...
Read MoreMixins in .NET
Mixins are a good way to weave functionality into a class. Wikipedia defines Mixin as follows “In object-oriented programming languages, a mixin is a class that provides a certain functionality to be inherited by a subclass, while not meant for instantiation (the generation of objects of that class). Inheriting from a mixin is not a form of specialization but is rather a means of collecting...
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