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tarekayna

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About tarekayna

Windows 8 and Web Developer. Founder/Developer of ReferEngine.com and developer of Blu Graphing Calculator for Windows 8. Email: tarek at apexa.co.

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    I agree to the general concept. I'm just curious about how you would handle it. Would you use AWS as backup to Azure and switch DNS when this happens? Anyone else is welcome to pit…

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    Some individual services are up. But my system as a whole is down with Compute failing to start and Storage/Service Bus completely down.

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    You seem to be asking more than one person about failure plans. What kind of a failure plan do you have in mind? For something as big as this (many azure services are completely do…

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    Yeah I didn't see anything wrong with my services 2 days ago, which rely heavily on Sql Azure. Right now everything is down.

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    Apparently Oman is a destination for meteorite explorers. That explains the difference between Oman and Saudi Arabia on the map. http://www.livescience.com/3613-searching-meteorite…

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    Nice, I used to work for MS too :). I actually went the JS route because of my skillset. I was was web-dev before I joined MS and never got into XAML much. The JS platform was pret…