Author Archives: Patrick McClory

About Patrick McClory

Patrick McClory is a professional services architect at RightScale. He leads implementations on Windows and is the lead for onboarding and consulting services for clients utilizing Windows Azure. He is a Microsoft Certified Developer and holds a number of other certifications, including SharePoint and SQL Server. Patrick’s favorite quote is “Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid." (William M. Kelly)

Deploy Windows Azure VMs with RightScale for Rapid Testing and Validation

Posted on April 16, 2013

With Microsoft’s announcement today of the general availability of its IaaS solutions, it’s only appropriate that we press on and get technical with how to use Windows Azure within your dev/test workflow. In my article on how to Integrate Windows … Continue reading →

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Integrate Windows Azure IaaS with RightScale to Improve Your SDLC

Posted on February 27, 2013

Whether you have a formalized process that’s tailored to your business, or you’ve chosen one of the Microsoft-provided ALM models within Team Foundation Server, or your process is seemingly ad hoc, it’s worth re-examining your software development lifecycle (SDLC) every … Continue reading →

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Best Practices: Managing Web Application Sessions

Posted on December 21, 2012

Everyone has an opinion about how you should write your application. Whether it’s the structure, language, or database (or not!) that you choose, there are plenty of people telling you what you should do, but not how to do it. … Continue reading →

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DNS Load Balancing and Using Multiple Load Balancers in the Cloud

Posted on October 23, 2012

Load balancing in general is a complicated process, but there’s some secret sauce in managing DNS along with multiple load balancers in the cloud. It requires that you draw from a few different sets of networking and “cloudy” concepts. In … Continue reading →

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RightScale Credentials Best Practices

Posted on September 20, 2012

Credentials within RightScale offer a convenient way to store sensitive or frequently used values in an easily manageable interface. It’s important to remember that RightScale credentials consist of a Name, Value and Description and are intended to be used as … Continue reading →

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