Coders

The Windows Azure TableBrowser is a web based application that gives you the ability to browse your Windows Azure Storage tables and create, edit, delete, and copy entities.

Standard fare for most dynamic data and the way most everybody would tell you to do it. Only thing is that it scales like a dog.

The thing is that holding all the weather of the entire globe in memory, well, takes a lot of memory. More than is reasonable. In which case, there’s a fairly decent chance that a given request can’t be served from the cache, resulting in a query to the database, an update to the cache, which bumps out something else, in short, not a very good hit rate.

If we were able to make our clients in London perform an HTTP GET on http://weather.myclient.com/UK/London then we could return headers in the HTTP response telling the intermediaries that they can cache the response for an hour, or however long we want.