Reading Notes 2012-07-23

You will find below different links to the blog or Web site which kept Matricis' bloggers interest during the week ending on July, 23th.

Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Google Cloud Storage (Gaurav) – Always very interesting those posts where two or more products are compared…
Best Practices for Performance Improvements Using Service Bus Brokered Messaging (msdn.microsoft.com) – Nice post with a lot of simple rules that will help to get better results.
Windows Azure End to End Examples – Three different sources of information that could help you learning Windows Azure.
Vlad Mazek – Vladville Blog » Blog Archive » What if we’re all wrong about the cloud? – Interesting thoughts about what is and what should be cloud storage.
Architecting with AWS – Before You Go (Jeremiah Peschka) – Nice post about an architect training on AWS. The equivalent also exists for Azure… even if this post didn't talk about it.
Windows Azure Storage – 4 Trillion Objects and Counting (Brad Calder) – Interesting post about Azure Storage all in numbers…. (Read stats).
What's New? – Wow! The perfect monster machine to run those NoSQL databases…
All Things Distributed (Werner Vogel) – Nice post about the new high performance EC2 of AWS. All about the specs and features of this new instance type.
8 Questions to ask an AWS Expert – Good questions and good answers about key features of Amazon web Services AWS.

What Exactly Is GitHub Anyway? (Klint Finley) – Excellent post that demystifies all unknown about GitHub. Nice work! A post that you should definitely read.
Azure CDN – with AzureCdn.Me and MVC3 (Iain Hunter) – Nice post and great tool. The AzureCdn.Me even has a NuGet package… This tool will simplify so much your work with the Azure content delivery network (CDN).
Advanced queries with Lucene.NET (codewrecks.com) – Lucene.NET is the best option to do full text search in Azure. This great post explains how to perform advanced queries.
Entity Framework and Open Source (Scott Gu) – I'm really happy to see that the Entity Framework is now completely open source and on CodePlex. Learn a bit more about version 5 and even 6.
Five Rules to Simplify Large Scale BizTalk Orchestration Development (Stephen W. Thomas) – Simple rules that will help for sure.
Entity Framework Magic Unicorn (and much more!) is now open source with take backs (Scott Hanselman) – Another great post about the even greater Entity Framework. The big news EF is going open source on CodePlex with GitHub. Also see code snippets from EF6.
ASP.NET Web API and Azure Blob Storage (Yao – MSFT) – Super tutorial that shows step by step how to manage your Azure Blob Storage by code, by doing a nice helper class.

5 Sleep Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making (And How They’re Hurting Your Blog) (Guest Blogger) – Interesting post. How many of those rules do you follow… and do you have any sleeping issue?
The Patient Knows What’s Wrong with Him – Nice thoughts, we shouldn't expect the solution from the user… only partial information. The analogy with the doctor is a really good idea, I’m sure I will reuse it someday…

[…]And the user exclaimed with a snarl and a taunt, “It’s just what I asked for, but not what I want!” That was 30 years ago, and I doubt the poem was new then.[…]
Windows Azure Quietly Puts Its Pieces Into Place (Alexander Haislip) – Nice post talking about the global strategy of Microsoft.
ScrumMaster Tales – New People on the Team (Mark Levison) – Nice post about a new people in an Agile team. When some frictions popup what you should do…
Is Daddy on a call? A BusyLight Presence indicator for Lync for my Home Office (Scott Hanselman) – I definitely want one of those. The idea is so simple but so genius! Nice post.

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