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How to use the Windows Azure Service Management API from cURL to create...
Recently a partner asked me for some simples examples of using the Windows Azure Management API from that most universal Swiss army knife of HTTP debug tools, namely the infamous cURL. Specifically, he...
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Analyzing page view logs using Pig on Windows Azure HDInsight
In this article, I would like to take you through the steps to run your first Pig script on a significant dataset, using the new public preview of Windows Azure HDInsight, our distribution of Apache...
View ArticleHow to interact with Windows Azure Blob Storage from Linux using Python
We have many Windows Azure SDKs that you can use on Linux to access Windows Azure Blob Storage and upload or download files, all hosted on GitHub. For example, you could write scripts in Python or...
View ArticleUploading large files to Windows Azure Blob Storage using Python
In my last post, I shown some simple examples of uploading files to Blob Storage directly from the Linux command-line using the Windows Azure Python SDK. There is a limitation with this simple method:...
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Deploying Cloudera CDH on Windows Azure Virtual Machines using Cloudera Manager
Updated 3/20/2014 to use the latest version of the command-line tool. Introduction In this tutorial, I would like to show you how to install CDH, the Cloudera Hadoop distribution on Windows Azure...
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Advanced Cookie-based session affinity with Application Request Routing
As you probably know, the Windows Azure Platform has a built-in load-balancing service that you can typically use to create "farms" of Web servers for high availability and performance scale-out. You...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell Remoting for disk provisioning automation
Windows Azure PowerShell cmdlets allow you to automate the construction of your infrastructure, typically creating and starting VMs, and attaching additional disks to expand the default storage...
View ArticleInstalling MariaDB Galera Cluster on Windows Azure
MariaDB Enterprise Cluster in the Azure Marketplace Update: this article describes how to install MariaDB manually on Azure, using the Classic stack. If you are looking for an out-of-the-box solution,...
View ArticleBuilding your Ubuntu PHP development box on Azure using Vagrant
With Azure you can easily create and use a development environment in the Cloud. You can create a Virtual Machine from the Management Portal or from the command line, but if you want more automation,...
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