PDC09 – Day Three – Building Scalable and Reliable Applications with Windows Azure
Brad Calder – Director/Architect Data Building Blocks Types of Storage in Windows Azure Volatile Storage Local Storage Caches (eg. AppFabricCache and MemCache) Persistent Storage Windows Azure Storage Blobs Provide interface for storing name files Tables structured storage. Queues reliable storage and delivery of messages SQL Azure Storage Account Performance at commercial Availability Capacity 100TB Throughput Up to a few hundred megabytes Partitioning of Data Objects Load balancing is an internal concept of Windows Azure Storage Allows the system to automatically scale out access to your data to meet its peek traffic demands What matters to the application is the partitioning … Continue reading PDC09 – Day Three – Building Scalable and Reliable Applications with Windows Azure