NoSQL implementation concepts

While familiarizing ourselves with Microsoft new DocumentDB, a solid foundation on NoSQL doesn't hurt.

A few years ago, I saw a couple of great presentations on Channel9 (from a TechED if I am not mistaken) about Azure Storage. The presenters went into how partitioning works, how requests are routed, how consistency is ensure,...

Digest: DocumentDB Resource Model and Concepts

Azure DocumentDB has release a few weeks ago and with it an early, in small quantity, of good quality documentation.

One of those article is DocumentDB Resource Model and Concepts. That article goes through the different concepts of the inner model of DocumentDB.

That article sheds some light on the product but also reveal the...

ClickOnce on CodePlex.com

You have a CodePlex.com project and you want to publish a release as a ClickOnce package.

You could, of course, deploy it elsewhere (for instance, in Azure Blob Storage) and reference it in your CodePlex page.

But… Codeplex made it quite easy to deploy it on their site and documented it in a few easy...

ClickOnce on Azure Blob Storage

You want to deploy a ClickOnce solution on the web. You are an Azure person and hesitate on how to deploy that using Azure Web Site…

Don't. Use Blob Storage instead: cheaper, easier and faster.

On top of that, RobinDotNet has a wonderful blog entry walking you through the details.

Thank you Robin...

Azure DocumentDB: first use cases

A few weeks ago Microsoft released (in preview mode) its new NoSQL Database: DocumentDB.

Not Only SQL (NoSQL) databases are typically segmented in the following categories: Key-Value (e.g. Azure Table Storage, Redis), Column (e.g. HBase, Cassandra), Document (e.g. CouchDB, MongoDB) & Graph. By its name but mostly by its feature set, DocumentDB falls in the document category.