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I had a email discussion late last weekend and through this weekend on the topic of transactions in Windows Azure. One of our technical account managers asked me on behalf of their clients how the client could migrate their solution to Windows Azure without having to make very significant changes to their error management strategy – a.k.a. transactions. In the respective solution, the customer has numerous transactions that are interconnected by queuing and they’re looking...

There’s a lot of talk about “Push” notifications both in web and mobile scenarios. “Push” is often positioned as something entirely different to “Pull” (or polling). The reality is that “Push” in the sense that it is used with Web Sockets or Apple/Windows/Android Push Notification systems is just a pattern nuance away from “Pull”. 

When I discuss that general realm with folks here, I use three terms. “Push”, “Solicited Push”, and “Pull”. When people talk...

I actually had to double-check whether it’s really true given all my talks and places where I’ve published articles, but the June 2012 issue of MSDN Magazine is indeed the first of this storied publication in which I have an article. It’s about the “Internet of Things” and an exemplary architecture for how to manage flow from and to large numbers of devices using Service Bus – and the article signals the beginning of an...

I’m toying around with very small and very constrained embedded devices right now. When you make millions of a small thing, every byte in code footprint and any processing cycle you can save saves real money. An XML parser is a big chunk of code. So is a JSON parser. Every HTTP stack already has a key/value pair parser for headers. We can use that.

NHTTP stands for NoHyperText Transfer Protocol. Yes, I made that...

I just wrote this email on a private mailing list and thought it may make sense to share it. The context of the discussion was overuse of the term “REST” in a document discussing an HTTP API:

REST is a set of architectural principles. REST describes how state flows and describes the shape of relationships between the parties in a distributed system. HTTP is a protocol with a variety of stacks supporting it,...