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For questions relating to Windows Azure cloud hosting technologies

Windows Azure is Microsoft's cloud hosting platform. At a basic level, like most cloud hosting platforms, it provides virtual machines and data storage based in datacenters around the world, charging for the use of resources. As time goes on, Microsoft is adding new capabilities to broaden its infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service capabilities, such as web servers, message bus and distributed cache. These services are all charged at different levels.

References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Azure http://www.windowsazure.com/

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Is it good practice for Azure applications to self-administrate?

In a lot of examples for the Azure platform I'm seeing a lot of self-administration happening: an application will test for the presence of an external system such as a queue or database and create the necessary structures it needs to function. This…
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How do i structure a serverless application using Azure Durable Functions?

I am trying to work out the best practice for structuring a series of Azure durable functions for reuse across future development work within my organisation. From the doc's it seems like the desired approach is to setup single use activity…
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