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paulbatum

21 karma · joined August 20, 2011

I'm a dev lead at Microsoft. My team works on Azure Mobile Apps and Azure Functions. You can find me on twitter at @paulbatum.
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paulbatum··on Microsoft Azure: Functions
Ignore my earlier comment, we pushed out some fixes. There is a working F# template in the experimental category. However please note that the performance is not great right now, you'll pay a startup cost of invoke fsi.exe per function invocation. It will get better!
paulbatum··on Microsoft Azure: Functions
Slight correction, F# support is broken right now. But its being fixed as we speak :) https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-script/pull/203
paulbatum··on Microsoft Azure: Functions
Event Hubs support is already in there and we have a couple of basic templates. Make a new function and check the "Data Processing" scenario category.
paulbatum··on Azure Mobile Services launched: A Cloud Backend For Mobile Apps
We use node-sqlserver (https://github.com/WindowsAzure/node-sqlserver).

We also give scripts full access to the node-sqlserver driver, so they can run their own arbitrary SQL as necessary.

paulbatum··on WebSockets RFC is now official
Many proxies deployed today won't understand the upgrade header and in the case of an explicit proxy config will ignore the CONNECT operation if performed on 80 (rather than 443).

WebSockets works best over SSL.

paulbatum··on Cocoa developer here. What APIs/tools for writing a commercial Windows app?
There are many people out there wondering the same thing - the Win8 HTML/JS announcement has thrown the rumor mill into a frenzy.

My advice - wait one month for BUILD (http://www.buildwindows.com/).

(disclosure - I work at Microsoft)