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March 2009 - Posts

• SQL Data Services Does Not Scale

  By scratching deep enough into available material on SQL Data Services (SDS) you will uncover the limitations of the platform that make it very difficult to scale. It does not scale upwards because of the size limitation of the instance and it does not Read More... Posted 31 March 2009 17:11 by simon.munro | 8 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Azure, Cloud, cloud computing, SQL Data Services, Database

• SQLBits and a Culture of Learning

  This week I am finalising my preparation for the talk that I am giving at SQLBits this weekend. ‘Finalising’ means taking the points that I want to make and other things floating around in my head and produce some meaningful slides so that I don’t go Read More... Posted 23 March 2009 16:45 by simon.munro | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Career, cloud computing, SQLBits

• Microsoft Fires a Salvo in the Database Wars

  If Microsoft can deliver on the features for SQL Data Services (SDS) announced today then they have set the bar for SQL and Cloud database vendors. With a relational database offering that is fundamentally cloud-based, Microsoft becomes the first big Read More... Posted 10 March 2009 21:25 by simon.munro | 1 Comments

• Bring on the Private Cloud

  To me the private cloud is an anti-cloud – I don’t see how a private cloud can possibly provide the economies of scale and office empire neutraility to make it an attractive alternative to a standard heavy-metal data centre. But maybe, just maybe, the Read More... Posted 10 March 2009 17:24 by simon.munro | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, cloud computing

• Consistency is an Unnecessary Obsession

  In order to build massively scalable databases you, as an architect, will have to toss out data consistency. The knee-jerk reaction is that consistency cannot and should not be compromised but the reality is that real-time consistency is less important Read More... Posted 06 March 2009 15:56 by simon.munro | 3 Comments Filed under: Azure, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, cloud computing, Database

• The Web to Cloud Skills Gap

  The majority of .NET developers are web developers and web development definitely has complexity in terms the required breadth of technologies that a developer needs to master - html, css, javascript, database, and a whole host of other technical jiggery-pokery Read More... Posted 04 March 2009 17:14 by simon.munro | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Career, Azure, Cloud, cloud computing