TL;DR: Use the Set-AzureStaticVNetIP cmdlet to reserve static IPs in a VNet. Yesterday I saw a blog post about deploying Couchbase on Windows Azure. It was good in everything related to creating VMs and actually installing Couchbase, but it had one flaw: it relied on the order in which…
It's story time! Recently, I consulted for a client on upgrading from their current big data infrastructure centered around Azure SQL and Azure Queues, to a more robust and scalable architecture, with Couchbase Server and HDInsight. As part of the Couchbase POC, we ran load tests on various configurations of…
First post about Couchbase Server - gotta start somewhere, so I'll briefly talk about a usecase that came up recently. Sometimes, you want to export your data from Couchbase. It might be because you want to have a backup in another system, or you want to use the data for…
Next week I'll be giving a talk about General Purpose Computing on the GPU (GPGPU) at the Sela Developer Practice conference. [Update: The website now shows SDP 2014, the post talks about SDP 2013.] There is no way to fit all the cool stuff you can do with GPGPU into…
Since the Ghost hosting service isn't available yet, I figured I'd go ahead and set up a Windows Azure node.js web site and deploy Ghost. But lo and behold, as I scroll down the list of web site templates in the site creation wizard, I see a Ghost app…