16.15. Real-World Azure
I talked to a couple of developers about their experience of working with Windows Azure.
16.15.1. Ray Booysen
http://vistasquad.co.uk/blogs/nondestructive/default.aspx
Ray Booysen has developed two Windows Azure applications. The first is a proof-of-concept/demonstration project to visually display how articles are linked in Wikipedia (www.dotnetsolutions.co.uk/evidence/wikiexplorer/, shown in Figure 16-21), and the second is an application for providing financial risk assessment.
Ray had the following tips:
When working with Azure storage, stop thinking normalization—this is not a normal database.
Carefully consider your partition and row keys because cross-partition searching is very slow (in his Wikipedia Explorer ...
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