Windows Azure Integration Pack
Greetings!
Feel free to suggest stories and vote for the existing ones to help us determine what will go in the release of the Enterprise Library 5.0 Windows Azure Integration Pack.
Please note this list may not always represent the actual priority list for the patterns & practices development team. It also does not constitute any commitments.
There are at least 4 pages of stories. Make sure to review all of them.
33 results found
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AutoscaleDatapoints table has a configurable retention policy.
AutoscaleDatapoints table needs to be cleaned up periodically for a running service. A configurable retention policy for table AutoscaleDatapoints is needed.
3 votes -
NetSqlAzman integration
Did you remember Security AppBlock? This block remains in future versions?
Did you remember AzMan?
For me this is the right hand to design security requeriments for applications. It could be better for use/develop and for design security.
Thanks
3 votes -
Auto-scaling for On-Premise applications
Is there any plan for for Auto-scaling on on-premise applications in Autoscaling Application Block instead of focusing a lot on Azure platform as we still have a lot of applications on on-premise servers hosting web applications, windows service applications and SQL Server 2005/2008?
4 votes -
Access to Diagnostics Agent
The diagnostics agent is currently an distant service from which you can only retrieve data by sending it requests.
What I would like to see is that I can subscribe to either queues and topics or directly subscribe to an event which allows me to capture the diagnostics data as it happens. I would also like to see a solid logging API which reports directly to the diagnostics agent rather that to a custom data store. This allows me to to get unified diagnostics info which covers server, service and custom code messages.
It also allows for 3rd party service…4 votes -
Multi-tenancy framework
An API/ framework that makes it easy to implement multi-tenancy in a Windows Azure application. Not only from a code standpoint of view, but also a multi-tenant database.
20 votes -
Metering of usage per user/ customer
An API, to find out who used which Windows Azure resources, which provides important information for billing a customer.
4 votes -
Diagnostics: Best Practices / Trend Analyzer
As a developer I would like the Azure service to be able to analyze my application and make recommendation for performance and productivity improvements based upon usage and trends.
7 votes -
Backup and restore data
As a developer, I would like to have an API to backup and restore selected tables and databases.
15 votes -
SkypeKit web service
As a developer, I would like a Skype Kit web service on Azure to make use of Skype technology.
7 votes -
Upload selected files and folders
As a developer, I would like to upload selected folders and files to Azure instead of deploying the full solution to Azure. For example when you need to replace a small image or other resource file.
11 votes -
Automatic purge to blobs
I need the ability to automatically purge WADLogs to blob storage (hourly or daily - one blob per interval)
8 votes -
Voting
Sometimes applications need to determine wheather to take certain action or not by voting on it. All nodes involved need to be able to vote, and the master decides on the final action based on the responses.
2 votes -
Distributed synchronization
For complex application, an idea of distributed synchronization mechanism should be implemented. Especially in the case of Enterprise Applications, one would very often need one of N roles to take ownership of a resource (e.g. as a Master Role).
10 votes -
Auto-scaling: config: programmatic
As a developer, I want to have programmatic configuration support via fluent interface for the rulesets and auto-scaling operations.
18 votes -
Data Access: paging to specific page
When paging through data that comes from the azure storage tables, I want the ability to navigate to a specific page.
9 votes -
Data Access: paging
As a developer, I want the data access block to help me with paging forward and backward through a result set that comes from azure storage tables.
28 votes -
Data Access: Continuation tokens management
As a developer, I want the data access block to handle page contiuation tokens for me when the server returns less than the expected rows to me. Especially when the query passes over partition boundaries.
6 votes -
Configuration from cscfg file
As a developer I want to load my Enterprise Library configuration from a cscfg file.
14 votes -
Configuration from service
As a developer I want to load configuration information from a web service so that I can keep my configuration on-premises or in a different cloud or in some arbitrary location, not packaged in the look for proper name of unit of deployment.
9 votes -
Diagnostics: correlations
As an administrator, I'd like to correlate the logs generated with the performance counters I collect from the instances through Azure Diagnostics subsystem.
8 votes
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