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Comment on Why So Many Azure Storage Transactions? by Ziko

Ziko — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:30:47 +0000

Hit this same problem… thanks for the details!
Where should the robots.txt file go? At the root of the project with a compile-action of include? Or something else?

Comment on How to design a Fluent Interface by Web Designer

Web Designer — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:29:58 +0000

Nice post. My friend Adam told me about this blog a few weeks ago but this is the first time visiting. I’ll be back for sure.

Comment on Why So Many Azure Storage Transactions? by David Makogon

David Makogon — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:47:14 +0000

Without diagnostics, you’re flying blind.

Diagnostics are collected locally on each instance, and then pushed to storage (either blob or table, depending on what’s being pushed) periodically. It’s the push to Storage that costs you the transactions, not the collection side, so the key is to reduce the push frequency.

Try pushing things like performance counters every 5-10 minutes. Same with logging. You’ll still have one set of transactions per running compute instance, but scaling down the push frequency will significantly lower your transaction count.

For an extremely simple example of code to configure diagnostics, you can look at this StackOverflow answer I posted a while back. Note that this is simply enabling logging, and pushing it to storage every 5 seconds. I would strongly recommend changing that setting to something like 10 minutes.

Comment on Why So Many Azure Storage Transactions? by Leon Cullens

Leon Cullens — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:58:20 +0000

Wow, thanks for the tip, didn’t know this. This can potentially cost people lots of money.

Comment on Why So Many Azure Storage Transactions? by Gaurav Mantri

Gaurav Mantri — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:17:40 +0000

Great article. However at times, we would need to collect diagnostics information to find out what’s going on with our roles. Transferring only selected records from Windows Azure VM to Windows Azure Storage will help us achieve that. For example, we can choose to transfer only “Error” trace log entries instead of transferring everything to storage.

Comment on Why So Many Azure Storage Transactions? by Craig

Craig — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:43:34 +0000

Great article. I too have been wondering why my storage transactions were through the roof for no good reason.

Comment on EF Code First DB Initialization Using Web.Config by sklep rolniczy

sklep rolniczy — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:24:06 +0000

Hey There. I found your blog using msn. This is a very well written article. Ill make sure to bookmark it and return to read more of About . Thanks for the post. I will definitely return.

Comment on EF Code First DB Initialization Using Web.Config by Randy Patterson

Randy Patterson — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:06:30 +0000

Can you be more specific? I removed my browser cache and refreshed….all the pictures were available.

Comment on EF Code First DB Initialization Using Web.Config by Edda Wojenski

Edda Wojenski — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:54:28 +0000

Hi just wanted to give you a quick heads up and let you know a few of the pictures aren’t loading correctly. I’m not sure why but I think its a linking issue. I’ve tried it in two different browsers and both show the same results.

Comment on EF Code First DB Initialization Using Web.Config by Stellan D

Stellan D — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:45:28 +0000

Interesting post indeed!

One question though;
How would you implement the relation if both wizards knew the same spell?

I.e. if both Merlin and Gandalf knew the spell “Illumination”?