The Windows Azure Virtual Machines (WAVM) feature uses the BLOB storage service to store the actual VHDs for the guest virtual machines. The OS disk and any attached data disks are basically giant Page Blob files stored in your Windows Azure storage account. When the WAVM feature was first announced someone immediately asked the question, “If I have an 100 GB data Disk VHD file in my storage account, but it’s only got 20 GB of space used am I charged for all 100 GB?
Today has shaped up to be awesome for me. First off, I started at Cerebrata (Red Gate) as a Product Evangelist. This role is something I’ve been excited about since a side conversation almost a year ago even brought up the possibility. Most of today was spent roaming the halls of Red Gate (digitally since I’m working remote), meeting new folks over email, seeing the internal communications and trying to get my bearings of all the resources.
A week ago today I was on my way home from an awesome trip in Stockholm, Sweden. It was a short trip (just five days, two of which was mostly spent traveling), but I was able to get three great achievements in (still a long way from catching up with Brian). Achievement Unlocked: Swedish Meatballs The first achievement was just visiting Sweden itself. I’ve been out of the country a few time, but only once before had I gone across the “pond”.