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
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Backup strategies for Sql Azure Federations
March 26th, 2012 0 Comments
One of the greatest features of Sql Azure is the built in redundancy. For each Sql Azure database, besides the live instance, at any moment there are at least two replicas, one of them being transactionally consistent with the live one. This means that data stored in Sql Azure databases is pretty much bullet proof … Continue reading