Azure Load Balancer Nuggets

Up until recently I assumed the azure load balancer just was a simple round robin balancer.

Configuration files or APIs

Configuration files is something we have always been familiar with and with cloud services I think more and more configuration has started to move into code. But I was very intrigued by yet a different concept used by a team I worked with a while back; configuration APIs for temporary changes.

Clients and eventual consistency

If you're working with a distributed system it is likely that you use eventual consistency to make your system scalable and robust but what does this means to clients?

How to know when to auto scale

When it comes to auto scaling I tend to see one of two approaches. But neither is actually good.

Throttling requests to your azure website using IP

A few weeks ago the dynamic IP address restriction feature was announced for Azure Web services.