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Operational costs of an Azure Message Queue
A potential issue with azure message queues is the fact that there are hidden costs associated with them, depending on how often the system accesses the queues you pay more, no matter whether there are...
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Publish/Subscribe on Azure with NServiceBus
The Pattern The Pub/Sub (or Publish/Subscribe) pattern is a loosely coupled messaging pattern between different components in a system. Certain components, the subscribers, show their interest in...
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The Saga pattern on Azure with NServiceBus
The Saga Pattern As you probably know by now, I’ve been adding support for Windows Azure to the NServiceBus framework, mostly because I believe NServiceBus has the most comprehensive set of...
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Improving throughput with NServiceBus on Windows Azure
One of the things that has always bothered me personally on the ‘NServiceBus – Azure queue storage’ relationship is throughput, the amount of messages that I could transfer from one role to the other...
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Overcoming message size limits on the Windows Azure Platform with NServiceBus
When using any of the windows azure queuing mechanisms for communication between your web and worker roles, you will quickly run into their size limits for certain common online use cases. Consider for...
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AppFabric queue support for NServiceBus
Last week at the //BUILD conference, Microsoft announced the public availability of the AppFabric Queues, Topics and Subscriptions. A release that I have been looking forward to for quite some time...
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Hosting options for NServiceBus on Azure – Dedicated Hosting
One of the main concerns people have regarding the windows azure platform is that of costs, especially hosting costs as that makes up the majority of the equation. This is mostly due to a descrepancy...
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Hosting options for NServiceBus on Azure – Shared Hosting
Yesterday, I discussed the dedicated hosting model for NServiceBus on Windows Azure. Today I would like to introduce to you the second model, which allows you to host multiple processes on the same...
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Hosting options for NServiceBus on Azure – Web roles & web workers
Understanding webroles Up until now I’ve only discussed worker roles, deliberatly, as they are relatively straight forward to use in combination with NServiceBus. Webroles however are a bit different...
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NServiceBus on Sql Azure, sometimes stuff just works
It just works Microsoft has put a tremendous amount of effort into Sql Azure to ensure that it works the same way as Sql Server on premises does. The fruits of all this labor are now reaped by us, in...
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