Suggestion of the week
- Announcing Reduced Pricing on Storage - How can we be not happy to pay less for a nice service?!
- Stupid Azure Trick #2 – How do I create a new Organizational Account on Windows Azure Active Directory without any existing accounts or EA? (Bill Wilder) - Very useful post that could have saved me a lot of time few years back...
Books
- Cloud Architecture Patterns (Bill Wilder) - Very instructive books that explains many different patterns with clear and practical examples. All the patterns presented are also implemented in an application Page of Photos (or PoP for short). A great book that I strongly recommend.
Cloud
- Indexes are Crucial on Windows Azure SQL Database! - This post explains very clearly how we can (and should) plan our Azure database to get better performance.
- Enough PaaS vs. IaaS: The cloud is really about Services as a Platform (James Urquhart) - Interesting post that expresses opinions on the different cloud s0ervic0es and providers.
- Goodbye SkyDrive, Hello OneDrive (David Musgrave) - Time to re-brand for Microsoft... and I think I prefer that new name...
- New Poster: Windows Server 2012 R2 Private Cloud Storage and Virtualization (Benjamin Armstrong) - Another of those huge posters.
- Google Cloud Platform: Storing Data in Google Cloud Datastore (Ted Neward) - This 6th post of the series describing the Google is focusing on datastore everything is really well explained. All parts were very nice.
- New Financial Services Category in the AWS Marketplace - Interesting new product as a service, I know a few people that would be truly interested ;).
Programming
- Code Kata - I love it. I didn't know those kind of websides exists! I will make my visit.
Miscellaneous
- How to speak tech to non-tech people - Interesting tips to improve our talks.
- Internet of Things or Thing on the Internet? - Interesting thoughts about today's and tomorrow's the Internet.