FLORIN DUMITRESCU

Asynchronous I/O has been present in the .Net Framework from version 1.0, through the Begin/End methods, but it’s only in the recent years when it became a popular topic. There were probably two main reasons for that. One of them was the raise in popularity of node.js which has continuously advertised the event-driven, non-blocking IO … Continue reading →

Recently, Windows Azure has entered in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) territory by announcing Windows Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), currently in public preview. Along with VMs came the possibility to host SQL Server databases directly inside Azure cloud. Previously, the only option for relational databases inside Windows Azure was represented by Windows Azure SQL … Continue reading →

During the presentation held at the 2012 TechEd event and later on his blog, Cihan Biyikoglu made the announcement that the Windows Azure SQL Database team (former Azure SQL team) has recently improved the latency of the USE FEDERATION statement. That was possible by implementing two layers of caching. The first layer is a connection … Continue reading →