NoSQL the Sequel, now with SQL - the revenge of DocumentDB
Sorry, but I can't help myself when a pun like this comes up. A couple of weeks ago Microsoft released previews of two new databases on Azure, called Azure Search and Azure DocumentDB. These two services make the storage story on Azure much more complete, for the needs of many a...
Microsoft track at GOTO
Its a good thing I wrote my last blogpost when I did – otherwise I would not have had the chance to complain about the missing Microsoft track :) Shortly after I published my post, the conference announced just that track, and that Mads Kristensen is doing one of the talks on web...
Robust integration with Redis on Azure and Polly
A client of mine requested an integration with OpenWeatherMap , so like so many times before it was a chance to think about how to make such an integration robust and performant. Its as common a task as they come, but also something that tends to end up feeling more complex than...
GOTO Copenhagen 2014
As you may have noticed I have been blogging from the GOTO Conference in Aarhus the last couple of years. It has been a lot of fun and I really enjoy spending a few days absorbing as much as I can while trying to convey the messages through this blog. So even though I have moved...
NDC talk: “Cloud beyond scaling: realtime webapplications”
This week I was at NDC Oslo, and besides seeing a bunch of awesome talks and having fun with equally geeky people I got to talk about building realtime applications with Firebase, AngularJS and EmberJS. It’s a topic I like, because I can give the audience something very tangable...