Herve Roggero

Microsoft Azure is now offering a third storage option for developers: DocumentDB. DocumentDB is a no-sql storage service that stores JSON documents natively and provides indexing capabilities alon…

In this blog post, I will compare what it would take to perform the same project on a virtualized environment (on your own hardware) and hosted in a collocation environment (private hosting). As wi…

Sometimes you end up reading a great chapter and feel like writing a review about it… well here it is! Smile Chris Shaw (@SQLShaw, http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com ) wrote a chapter in the PRO SQL Se…

This blog is the first one of a series of blogs addressing programming practices and lessons learned related to cloud computing. While most developers will be familiar at least conceptually with th…

In Chapter 10 of the book on SQL Azure (http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430229612) I am co-authoring, I am digging deeper in what it takes to write a Shard. It's actually a pretty cool exercise…