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Azure, SLAs and CAP theorem

- by dayscott

Azure itself is imo PaaS and not IaaS. Do you agree? MS gurantees an availability of 99% and a strong consistency. You can find MS SLAs here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/sla (three SLAs Uptime: http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/4889/unbenanntqt.png ) I can't find anyhing about how they are going to archive that. Do they do backups? If Yes: How do they manage consistency? According to the Cap theorem (http://camelcase.blogspot.com/2007/08/cap-theorem.html ) their claims are not realistic. 2.1 Do you know detailed technical stuff about the how they are going to realize the claims about consistency and availability? On the MS page you'll find three SLAs .docs, one for SQL Azure, the second for Azure AppFabric/.Net Services and the third for Azure Compute&Storage.(Screenshot in 1.) How can one track whether SLAs are violated? Do they offer some sort of monitor, so I don't have to measure the uptime by myself?

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Git dirctet acyclic graph - children know their parents but not the other way around

- by dayscott

Git is implemented as a directed acyclic graph. Children know their parents but not the other way round. This makes sense because i can reach every commit only through a branch or a tag ( generally speaking through a reference). That's how i traverse the tree. What other reasons had the developers of Git to make "the children know their parents but not the other way around"?/ What are the key benefits of this?

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Azure scalability over XML File

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What is the best practise solution for programmaticaly changing the XML file where the number of instances are definied ? I know that this is somehow possible with this csmanage.exe for the Windows Azure API. How can i measure which Worker Role VMs are actually working? I asked this question on MSDN Community forums as well: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazure/thread/02ae7321-11df-45a7-95d1-bfea402c5db1

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How to show Git commits that were posted in less than 60 seconds between each other?

- by dayscott

I want to show a filtered history of commits. I need only those commits that have less than 60 seconds between each other, in order to see who did a bad job committing so fast. How to do this?

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Proving Transaction Processing in Azure

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Since I am writing a seminar work on "Transaction Processing in MS Azure" for my university I wanted to launch a bank-transfer simulation. I already have implemented a getting-started thingy to get familiar with Azure: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/dhananjaycoder/48/Default.aspx . Question: What is the most easy way (using SQL Azure) to implement a small app which (dis)proves that transactions in Azure are done properly? (e.g. no lost updates)

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build a chrome extension in order to upload images (from clipboard)

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I wanted to write a simple chrome extension in order to substitute the following sequence of steps which i have to do very often for university: make screenshot of something edit screenshot in Paint save unnamend.png to harddrive upload unnamed.png to imageshack.us/pic-upload.de or any other website share link of image with others. I don't care which image upload service to use, i just want automize this use-case in order to save time (I already red and did a getting-started chrome extension and checked out their API, but that's it, this page: http://farter.users.sourceforge.net/blog/2010/11/20/accessing-operating-system-clipboard-in-chromium-chrome-extensions/ seemed useful, but i couldn't make it overwrite my systems clipboard - moreover i can't find a tutorial which helps me further).

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