Azure eBook Update #1 – 16 authors so far!
- by Eric Nelson
I just wanted to share with folks where we are up to with the Windows Azure eBook (Check out the original post for full details)  I have had lots of great submissions from folks with some awesome stuff to share on Azure. Currently we have 16 authors and 25 proposed articles.   There is still a couple of days left to submit your proposal if you would like to get involved (see the original post ) and some topic suggestions below for which we don’t currently have authors.  It is official – I’m excited! :-)              Article        Area        Accepted                  Wikipedia Explorer: A case study how we did it and why.        CaseSetudy        Optional                  Patterns for the Windows Azure Platform (picking up 1 or 2 patterns that seem to be evolving)        Architecture        Optional                  Azure and cost-oriented architecture.        Architecture        Yes                  Code walkthrough of a comprehensive application submitted to newCloudApp contest        CaseSetudy        Yes                  Principles of highly scalable apps on Azure        Compute        Optional                  Auto-Scaling Azure        Compute        Yes                  Implementing a distributed cache using memcached with worker roles        Interop        Yes                  Building a content-based router service to direct requests to internal HTTP endpoints        Compute        Optional                  How to debug an Azure app by with a custom TraceListener & the AppFabric Service Bus        AppFabric        Yes                  How to host Java apps in Azure        Interop        Yes                  Bing Maps Tile Servers using Azure Blog Storage        Interop        Yes                  Tricks for storing time and date fields in Table Storage        Storage        Yes                  Service Runtime in Windows Azure         Compute        Yes                  Azure Drive         Storage        Optional                  Queries in Azure Table        Storage        Optional                  Getting RubyOnRails running on Azure        Interop        Yes                  Consuming Azure services within Windows Phone        Interop        Yes                  De-risking Your First Azure Project        Architecture        Yes                  Designing for failure        Architecture        Optional                  Connecting to SQL Azure In x Minutes        SQLAzure        Yes                  Using Azure Table Service as a NoSQL store via the REST API        Storage        Yes                  Azure Table Service REST API         Storage        Optional                  Threading, Scalability and Reliability in the Cloud        Compute        Yes                  Azure Diagnostics        Compute        Yes                  5 steps to getting started with Windows Azure        Introduction        Yes                  The best tools for working with Windows Azure        Tools        Author Needed                  Understanding how SQL Azure works        SQLAzure        Author Needed                  Getting started with AppFabric Control Services        AppFabric        Author Needed                  Using the Microsoft Sync Framework with SQL Azure        SQLAzure        Author Needed                  Dallas - just a TV show or something more?        Dallas        Author Needed                  Comparing Azure to other cloud offerings        Interop        Author Needed                  Hybrid solutions using Azure and on-premise        Interop        Author Needed