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by Sriram via Sriram Krishnan on 5/5/2009 11:33:00 PM
Over the last several months, I had been working on a major feature for Windows Azure which I couldn't talk about in public. I' happy to announce that as of last week, it has been shipped to our production clusters and anyone can use it now. I'm a bit late in posting about it but hey- better late than never.Around six-seven months ago, my manager called me into his office and asked "Hey - do you want to the Program Manager on this geo stuff?" At that time, I really didn't have any idea what I wa ...
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by Sriram via Sriram Krishnan on 4/22/2009 11:40:00 PM
It's been close to 5 months since I last posted but I have a good excuse this time. Back in November, I was recovering from PDC 2008 and the launch of Windows Azure. One morning, I had this crazy idea. Like all new Microsoft platforms, Windows Azure was going to need a book. Why not write it? I sent out a few feeler mails and O'Reilly was quick to respond and talk to me. Of all the publishers I spoke to, they were definitely the easiest to work with and I wound up signing a deal with them to wri ...
by Sriram via Sriram Krishnan on 1/1/2009 7:38:00 PM
Background I'm a procrastinator. Where others see an obstacle to surmount, I see an opportunity to put something away for later. Which is exactly what I did for my Erlang wrapper around the Windows Azure a few days ago. I discovered that Erlang didn't support SHA 256 out of the box, necessary for the HMAC-SHA256 needed for authenticating storage requests, I threw up my hands in a mediocre blog post, filed away my code for a later date when either Erlang added SHA 256 support to the crypto module ...
by Sriram via Sriram Krishnan on 11/15/2008 9:32:00 AM
On one of our internal mailing lists, someone asked how to serve gzipped content from Windows Azure storage directly. When serving static content (like JS/CSS files) over HTTP, serving them compressed usually gives you big wins in terms of network performance since you have to send less bytes over the wire. Windows Azure currently doesn't compressing uncompressed data on the fly for you. However, there's nothing stopping you from storing the data compressed in the first place. The key is to set ...
by Sriram via Sriram Krishnan on 11/12/2008 6:13:00 PM
The best way to really learn a system is to write code against it. I spent some time over a weekend and started writing a Python wrapper on top of our storage APIs. I've gotten it to the point where I can authenticate against a storage endpoint, be it development storage on your local machine or the *.core.windows.net endpoints in the sky. I spent some time today implementing the basic blob primitives (list containers, get/put blob but there is a long way to go before it is usable). Though it is ...
by Sriram via Sriram Krishnan on 11/5/2008 5:01:00 PM
I've collected a set of Windows Azure links and resources so that I have one central place to point people to. I'll update this page as I find new links or as these links change Core Resources www.azure.com : Central site for everything Azure related. From there you'll find the links to sign up tog et on the Windows Azure waiting list Windows Azure SDK : Lets you build, debug and package services locally. In particular, check out the development fabric and development storage which provide a ...
by Sriram via Sriram Krishnan on 10/28/2008 1:35:00 AM
[Update: The video of my talk is now up at http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ES03/ ]Wondering what the image represents? I'll get to that in just a bit :-). Since we're officially out in the open now, I can a talk bit more about my talk on Wednesday. I also realized that my talk is in the exact same slot as Raymond Chen's and Anders Hejlsberg's and Chris Sells' so I thought I should do some plugging (since even I would be tempted to watch one of those three speak :-) ).The title of my talk has c ...
by Sriram via Sriram Krishnan on 10/27/2008 4:42:00 PM
I've always been a scale nerd. A few months ago, as a result of a weird set of incidents, I find myself having a conversation with the 'Red Dog' team. Seeing the kind of technology they were building and the kind of people they had (Dave Cutler to start with), it seemed a perfect fit for me. Little did I realize how life on the team was going to be like. After a roller-coaster two months, I'm happy to be able to finally talk about what I work on. I work on Windows Azure. It is a great f ...
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