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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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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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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logging
amend the current logging to support Azure logging as easy as possible.
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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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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)
responded
Released in WASABi BETA
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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)
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Released in WASABi BETA
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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 -
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)
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Released. See WASABi BETA
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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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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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Configuration: Protected Configuration Provider
As a developer, I want access to a protected configuration provider that will allow me to securely encrypt sections of my configuration files in Windows Azure when I have multiple web or worker role instances.
17 votes -
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.
16 votes -
Auto-scaling: config: declarative
As an administrator, I want to have declarative configuration support for the rulesets and auto-scaling operations.
10 votescompleted ·AdminGrigori Melnik (Producer)
(Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Enterprise Library)
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Released. See WASABi BETA
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Auto-scaling: resource optimization
As an administrator or account owner, I want the scaling-down decisions to be made with the consideration of the minimum unit of billing (for example, compute time hour). For example, do not scale down immediately before a paid hour of compute time is fully utilized.
11 votescompleted ·AdminGrigori Melnik (Producer)
(Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Enterprise Library)
responded
Via Optimizing Stabilizer – availabe in the final release
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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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Diagnostics: logging to custom Azure Storage table or blob
As a developer I want to send my log entries to a custom Azure Storage table or blob.
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Automatic retries: sophisticated logic
Because some transient failures may occur even when the requested operation succeeds and retrying the operation could result in a non-transient fault, I want the possibility of using a more sophisticated logic that can check that it's safe to retry before retrying.
10 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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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)
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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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