Welcome to Jekyll!

Well, this is the first post on my brand new Jekyll-powered blog, hosted on GitHub Pages.

Building 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, you can use a tool like Vagrant to automatically start and configure your Virtual Machine so that it is ready to use, instead of following manual installation steps to configure your environment.

Installing MariaDB Galera Cluster on Windows Azure

Install MariaDB Galera Cluster and create a VM Image

Deploying Cloudera on Windows Azure Virtual Machines using Cloudera Manager

Introduction

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 can find some detailed information on how to set this up in the Windows Azure documentation, like this article: Load Balancing Virtual Machines.