Bruce Johnson - Windows Azure Data Storage

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Windows Azure Data Storage

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Id like to thank my wife, Ali, and my four children, Gillian, Curtis, Kyle, and Cameron, for their love and support. They give me a little space when Im working on a book project, but only just a little. And I wouldnt have it any other way.

Bruce Johnson

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bruce Johnson is a partner at ObjectSharp Consulting and a 30-year veteran of the computer industry. The first third of his career was spent doing real work, otherwise known as coding in the UNIX world. For almost 20 years, he has been working on projects that are at the leading edge of Windows technology, from C++ through Visual Basic to C#, and from thick client applications to websites to services.

As well as having fun with building systems, Bruce has spoken hundreds of times at conferences and user groups throughout North America. He has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for the past four years and he is a co-president of the Metro Toronto .NET User Group. He has written columns and articles for numerous magazines. While the quantity of the posts on his blog ( www.objectsharp.com/blogs/bruce ) have decreased recently, the activity on his Twitter account ( www.twitter.com/lacanuck ) has shown a corresponding increase. For all of this activity (or, perhaps, in spite of it), Bruce has had the privilege to be recognized as a Microsoft MVP for the past seven years.

ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR

Tyler Doerksen is a Microsoft .NET software developer/architect based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada. He is passionate about new technologies like Windows Azure and mobile platforms. Currently a Cloud Solution Developer for Imaginet Resources ( imaginet.com ), Tyler has been using Microsoft technologies to help businesses reach their full potential for over 10 years. After-hours he enjoys participating in the software community through speaking and discussion groups. In 2012 he was awarded Windows Azure MVP by Microsoft for his community involvement. If you want to talk about app development or the cloud deployment model, drop Tyler a line. He is always interested in grabbing some coffee and talking cloud.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE WRITING OF A BOOK is much more of a collaborative effort than might be apparent to an outsider. I have written a number of books and I can guarantee you that there is no way a single one of those books would have seen the light of day without a great deal of assistance from many other people. There are a surprising number of people involved in the editorial process, and odds are pretty good that if you can understand the content of the book, that my editor, my technical reviewer, and my copy editor are the reason why. My first draft is not something that should be read by anyone and these people shape the pages so that the result is something that can be read by everyone. That is not an easy task and I am indebted to them for their assistance.

I would especially like to thank everyone at Wrox who has helped me through this process. In particular, thanks go out to Ed Connor, whose patience and attention to detail is quite impressive. Thanks also go to Tyler Doerksen, who did a great job making sure that the technical details of the book were accurate. Finally, thanks to Caroline Johnson, who had the unenviable chore of ensuring that I wasnt writing in the passive voice and fixed it when I stopped writing so well. The efforts of all of these individuals are what make the book possible and, hopefully, a success. Thanks also to Mary James, who was kind enough to allow me to indulge my passion to write.

Lastly, I would like to thank all of my associates at ObjectSharp and my contacts at Microsoft. In particular, Sargon Morad and Marc Farley of Microsoft helped me with the StorSimple product. While not everyone realized it at the time, the assistance they gave was instrumental in my being able to complete this book.