Jose has been working during the past 10+ months on a startup project that runs on MVC4 and the Microsoft Azure Platform, making heavy use of Azure tables and blobs for data storage. Come along and hear about how it all works, tips, recommended tools, lessons learned, and pitfalls. It will be full of live demos! Time permitting, he will be sharing his experiences on building a online-service using the Microsoft .NET web stack.

1. Using Azure Table Storage
in your Startup
Jose Parra
jparra@geeksco.com
@josedavidparra

6. Portals
End Users
Azure
Web Role
Accounts
XXXXX
XXXXXXX
Jobs
XXX
Azure Table
Storage
XXX
XXX XX
Editors
Data Access
Adapters
XXXXXXX
Biz Logic
XXXXX
Web UI
XXX XX
Logs
XXXXX
XXXXXXX
XXX
XXX XX
Documents
Admin
Static Content
Customer Support
(UsersVoice)
Payment
SMTP
Gateway Gateway
(PayPal) (SendGrid)
Azure
BLOBs

14. http://www.windowsazure.com/enus/pricing/calculator/

15. •
Cost!
•
•
US$1.75/mo for 25GB vs US$76 with
SQL Azure
$0.01 for 100K transactions (N/A for SQL
Azure)

16. Windows Azure Storage Account

17. 2x Same region (GRS)
• 3x Same sub-region (LRS)
•

27. Not an
RDBMS!
Table
http://<storage
account>.table.core.windows.net/<table>
Insert
Update
Entities
Merge – Partial update
Replace – Update entire entity
Upsert
Delete
Query
Entity Group Transactions
Multiple CUD Operations in a single atomic transaction

28. >
>
>
PartitionKey
(Category)
Action
Fast & Furious
…
10000 more Action movies
Action
The Bourne Ultimatum
…
100000 more Action & Animation movies
Animation
Open Season 2
…
Client
RowKey (Title)
100000 more Animation movies
Animation
The Ant Bully
Comedy
Office Space
…
1000000 more Comedy & SciFi movies
SciFi
Star Trek
…
100000 more SciFi & War movies
…
100000 more War movies
War
Defiance
28

29. >
>
>
>
>
PartitionKey
(Category)
RowKey
(Title)
Rating
Action
Fast & Furious
5
…
…
Returns 1000 rated > 4
movies
999 more movies
Action and Anim. movies here
with rating < 4
…
…
Animation
…
A Bug’s life
2
Partition range boundary hit
100 more movies < 4 here
…
Animation
The Ant Bully
3
Comedy
Are we there yet?
2
…
Client
Return continuation
More movies here
…
Comedy
Office Space
5
…
800000 more movies here
…
Drama
A Beautiful Mind
5
…
1200000 more movies here
…
War
Defiance
4
29

30. >
>
>
>
Rating
Fast & Furious
5
…
More movies here
…
Comedy
Office Space
5
…
More movies here
…
Documentary
Planet Earth
4
…
More movies here
Drama
Client
RowKey
(Title)
Action
>
>
PartitionKey
(Category)
Seven Pounds
4
Horror
Saw 5
3
…
More movies here
…
Music
8 Mile
2
…
More movies here
…
SciFi
Star Trek
5
…
More movies here
…
30

31. >
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
PartitionKey
(AccountID)
RowKey
(Kind_*)
Kind
TotalRentals
Name
Address
CheckOutOn
Title
DueOn
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
Sally
A_Sally
Account
8
Sally Field
Ann Arbor,
MI
Sally
R_Jaws
Rental
2009/11/16
Jaws
2009/11/20
Sally
R_Taxi
Rental
2009/11/16
Taxi
2009/11/20
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
31

39. Jose Parra
jparra@geeksco.com
@josedavidparra

40. http://www.windowsazure.com/enus/pricing/calculator/
http://azurestorageexplorer.codeplex.c
om/