Just lately I’ve been doing a lot of messing around with Windows Azure the main focus of which has been exploring Azure storage (tables, queues, blobs) and how those things can be manipulated from Azure worker roles. One output from that “messing around” has been my Tweetpoll application (read more: Tweetpoll my first Windows Azure application is live).
Since then I’ve found some blog resources that would have been useful during development had I found them earlier so I’m linking to them from here mainly so that I can easily find them again but also so that other people might be made aware of them because there’s some really good content here.
Firstly, Dom Green has developed a library that provides rich application tracing capabilities on top of Azure’s bog standard logging mechanisms. Read more at AzureTrace … managing all your Azure Logging Needs. I’ve put together something slightly similar myself recently but its not as feature rich as Dominic’s and, as anyone at Conchango EMC Consulting will tell you, I’m no .Net expert by any stretch of the imagination so I’ll be working to put Dom’s library into my own stuff forthwith.
Secondly, Dom linked to a great series of articles from Neil Kidd which cover how we could (and should) build reliable Azure worker roles. Those links:
Thank you Dom. Thank you Neil. There’s some really useful material here that I’ll be devouring constantly over the coming weeks and months.
@JamieT