Building IoT Solutions with Microsoft Orleans and Microsoft Azure - Part 2
Sep 20, 2015 · 14 min read
Before I start off with the main topic of this post, I would like to let you know that I have added Microsoft Office 365 to my arsenal. Earlier, I was not able to respond to your emails with my email id rahul@rahul-rai.com. However, now this email id has its own inbox and other goodies offered by MS Office 365. Say wassup to me any time you want to connect and I would respond!
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Building IoT Solutions with Microsoft Orleans and Microsoft Azure - Part 1
Sep 15, 2015 · 9 min read
In this two-part series I will walk you through building an IOT solution on Microsoft Azure using Microsoft Orleans. The first part is an overview of Microsoft Orleans while the second part will cover building a simple application on Microsoft Orleans and deploying it to Microsoft Azure. Lately, I was involved in training a bunch of my colleagues on the Microsoft Orleans framework. Microsoft Orleans is a framework that provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns.
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Handling Scheduled and Continuous Workloads Through Azure WebJobs
Aug 26, 2015 · 8 min read
What are WebJobs? If you have ever built an application of anything more than small scale, you know that you need to have services running in the background that can handle workloads that either are required to execute in the background or are required to run on scheduled intervals. There are several solutions available for this problem in on-premise and cloud worlds. You can use a windows service or have an HTTP endpoint triggered by a cron service such as Windows Task Scheduler to schedule a task.
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Exploring Azure Append Blob By Building a Log Combining Application
Aug 17, 2015 · 6 min read
Recently I got entangled in building a survey solution for this website. I was nearly done when I decided to scrap it. For the now scrapped implementation, I stored survey templates as JSON files in Azure Blob storage. That way I could design my own surveys simply by uploading a survey template. Next, I built logic in MVC to parse the JSON and build controls such as text box, radio button etc.
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Building a Reporting Application with Microsoft Azure RemoteApp
Aug 10, 2015 · 7 min read
Before I say anything else, let’s lay down a ground rule that I wish all blogs would follow: A sample that takes more than 30 minutes to get cranking up is a project. Get ready to learn about Azure RemoteApp applications by building a SAMPLE that would be powered by Microsoft Azure. September 23, 2016: Remote App is being discontinued. Read the announcement here. What is Azure RemoteApp? The cloud world is pretty biased towards web applications.
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The First Post
Jul 30, 2015 · 3 min read
Finally, my custom blogging platform is ready and raring to go. I will try to write as frequently as I can and keep making platform improvements. Since I have been working on building my blogging platform for some time, I think my opening blog should talk about how the platform works. September 23, 2016: I have migrated my blog to Hugo, which is a static site generator. Azure WebApps still hosts this blog.