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.
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39 results found
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Application rationing (throttling)
As a developer, I want a mechanism to detect higher resource utilization and change modes of operation to utilize less resources. This will allow to deal with bursts in demand without provisioning additional instances.
72 votescompleted ·
AdminGrigori Melnik (Producer)
(Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Enterprise Library)
responded
Released in WASABi BETA
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Instance auto-scaling: scheduled
As a developer or app administrator, I want a provisioning mechanism to schedule the number of instances of each role for specific time periods. These instances should be spun off or torn down without user's intervention. [Please comment on the granularity of timing - per hour, per day, the day of the week etc.]
27 votescompleted ·AdminGrigori Melnik (Producer)
(Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Enterprise Library)
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Released in WASABi BETA
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Instance auto-scaling: reactive: trends analysis
As an account owner, I want to be able to identify trends and specify auto-scaling criteria (rulesets) based on historic data. [Please be concrete with what kind of trends analysis and tools you'd like to have]
45 votescompleted ·AdminGrigori Melnik (Producer)
(Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Enterprise Library)
responded
Can now be accomplished with the GROWTH function as well as the operands being used on both sides of the conditionals. See WASABi BETA
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Automatic retries: general purpose
As an application developer I want a general-purpose mechanism that handles the retries of operations that failed because of transient issues.
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Auto-scaling: notifications
As an administrator, I want to be able to receive scaling notifications. Notification settings should be customizable.
25 votescompleted ·AdminGrigori Melnik (Producer)
(Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Enterprise Library)
responded
Released in WASABi BETA
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Diagnostics: logging to SQL Azure
As a developer I want to reliably store the log entries to SQL Azure.
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Reference Implementation
As a developer I want a reference implementation that shows me clearly how to use the Enterprise Library application blocks in a "real-world" Windows Azure application so that I can learn how to use the blocks in my own application.
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Instance auto-scaling: reactive
As a developer or app administrator, I want a provisioning mechanism to specify rulesets/triggers to scale up/down the number of instances according to resource monitoring metrics. This mechanism should have hard boundaries to avoid unbudgeted expenses. [Please comment on what resource metrics matter to you - CPU utilization, bandwidth, # requests, queue length etc.]
16 votescompleted ·AdminGrigori Melnik (Producer)
(Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Enterprise Library)
responded
Released. See WASABi BETA
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Hands-on-Labs
As a developer I want a set of hands-on-labs that will help me and my team to quickly ramp-up on using the Enterprise Library in a Windows Azure application. The hands-on-labs should support both developers who are new to the Enterprise Library and developers who already familiar with the Enterprise Library.
14 votescompleted ·AdminGrigori Melnik (Producer)
(Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Enterprise Library)
responded
Completed in Jan 2012. See http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28785
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Hybrid auto-scaling (application and instance)
Action can be both instance and application scaling (e.g. when treshold X is reached, spin up to 5 new instances of worker roles and if that is not enough to deal with the burst, do application scale down to the next level/mode of operation.
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Configuration from blob
As a developer I want to load configuration information from a blob in my Azure Storage account so that I could modify it without having to redeploy my app to Azure.
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Reference Implementation: Proven Practices
As a developer I want a reference implementation that illustrates proven practices for designing and developing Windows Azure application so that I can apply what I see to my own Windows Azure applications.
8 votescompleted ·AdminGrigori Melnik (Producer)
(Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Enterprise Library)
responded
See TailSpin Surves RI (http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/8/748F5A5F-57AE-4495-B7E7-397C287D0F07/EnterpriseLibraryIntegrationPack-WindowsAzure-TailspinRI.exe). The installation guide can be found at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=234660
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Developer's Guide
As a developer I want a Developer's Guide that describes how to use the Enterprise Library application blocks in a Reference Implementation for Windows Azure so that I can learn how to use the blocks in my own Windows Azure application. The guide should also explain why I should use Enterprise Library application blocks.
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Automatic retries: data access operations
As an application developer, I want support for automatic retries of SQL Azure data access operations that failed because of transient issues, without doing major refactorings of my application code.
27 votes -
Developer's Guide: PDF format
As a developer I want the Developer's Guide to be available as a PDF document so that I can read it using an eReader device.
9 votescompleted ·AdminGrigori Melnik (Producer)
(Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Enterprise Library)
responded
See http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/C/6/7C6DA1F9-52D4-4EBE-9AD6-840DB1C2EF50/Building Elastic and Resilient Cloud Applications.pdf
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Auto-scaling: history
As an administrator or account owner, I want to be able to see the history of the number of instances and/or application modes of operation along with what triggered the specificscaling activities so that I could understand and minotor the compute hours and plan my resource usage.
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Crypto: certificate-based providers
As a developer I want to have a set of crypto providers that keep keys encrypted with a certificate so that I can use the Crypto Application Block to encrypt or hash my data.
7 votes -
Videos: Application Blocks
As a developer I want a demonstration in a short video (<15 minutes)for each application block that provides an introduction and summary of the key points associated with using the application block so that I can quickly get started with using it myself.
5 votescompleted ·AdminGrigori Melnik (Producer)
(Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Enterprise Library)
responded
See the Videos section under http://entlib.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=EntLib5Azure
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Reference Implementation: Run Time Explanations
As a developer I want a reference implementation that provides explanation about what's happening while the application is running.
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Reference Implementation: Architectural Approaches
As a developer I want a reference implementation that illustrates appropriate architectural approaches for Windows Azure applications (for example CQRS) so that I can apply what I see to my own Windows Azure applications.
8 votescompleted ·AdminGrigori Melnik (Producer)
(Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Enterprise Library)
responded
See the Developer’s Guide (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29994) and the sister project – CQRS Journey (http://cqrsjourney.github.com)
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