Cloud Cover Episode 43 - Scalable Counters with Windows Azure

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Join http://www.wadewegner.com/ Wade and http://blog.smarx.com/ Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show http://twitter.com/cloudcovershow @CloudCoverShow . In this episode, Steve and Wade explain the application architecture of their latest creation—the http://www.apathybutton.com/ Apathy Button . Like many other popular buttons on the Internet, the Apathy Button has to deal with the basic challenge of concurrency. This concurrency challenge arises from multiple role instances<span>—as well as multiple threads<span>—all trying to update the same number. In this show, youll learn a few approaches to solving this in Windows Azure. In the news: MSDN Magazine: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg983488.aspx Introducing the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching Service New Windows Azure Code http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg663908.aspx Quick Start samples are available Japanese MVPs http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mvpawardprogram/archive/2011/04/05/behind-the-scenes-in-japan-windows-azure-mvps-help-drive-vital-communications.aspx help out with relief efforts Windows Azure helps to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/04/04/windows-azure-helps-power-ebay-s-ipad-marketplace.aspx power eBays iPad Marketplace sales Grab the http://cdn.blog.smarx.com/files/ApathyButton_source.zip source code the Apathy Button
Steves http://blog.smarx.com/posts/architecting-scalable-counters-with-windows-azure blog post on the application <img src="http://m.webtrends.com/dcs1wotjh10000w0irc493s0e_6x1g/njs.gif?dcssip=channel9.msdn.com&dcsuri=http://channel9.msdn.com/Feeds/RSS&WT.dl=0&WT.entryid=Entry:RSSView:e472442a63f2485c9c619ebf006ecce1

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