If you are an architect or developer interested in the Windows Azure cloud platform, here are some good blogs I read, and you might to consider following to help you keep pace.
Did I miss a good one? Please suggest it in the comments.
Blogs by Microsoft Teams
- Centralized Azure Team Blog: http://www.windowsazureblog.com/ (announced here)
- SQL Azure Team blog
- Windows Azure Team blog
- Window Azure AppFabric CAT blog (CAT = Customer Advisory Team)
- Windows Azure AppFabric Team blog
- Window Azure Connect Team blog
- Windows Azure Storage Team blog
Blogs by Microsoft Employees
- Brian Prince – Azure evangelist
- Clemens Vasters - AppFabric
- David Aiken - Windows Azure Technical Specialist
- David Robinson - SQL Azure
- Eugenio Pace - Patterns & Practices around Azure
- Jim O’Neil – Boston-area Developer Evangelist who codes in Azure writes detailed explanations – also a good friend of the Boston Azure User Group
- Steve Marx – Azure evangelist
- Vittorio Bertocci – Identity & Access Control Service (ACS)
- Wade Wegner – Azure evangelist
- Wenming Ye - High Performance Computing (HPC), sometimes intersecting with Windows Azure
Blogs by Windows Azure MVPs
(I know this list is incomplete – glad to include other blogs as I become aware of them – please feel free to let me know!)
- Anton Staykov
- Bill Wilder – you are on my blog now
- Brent Stineman
- Cory “SyntaxC4″ Fowler
- David Pallmann
- Gaurav Mantri (founder of Cerebrata)
- Jason Milgram (and his Linxter blog)
- Michael Collier
- Mike Wood
- Neil Mackenzie
- Nuno Filipe Godinho
- Rob Gillen
- Roger Jennings
- Steve Nagy
Blogs by SQL Azure MVPs
Blogs by Community
Did I miss a good one? Please suggest it in the comments!


Boston Azure User Group
David Aiken on Azure
June 13, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Windows Azure blog suggestions:
SQL Azure Team blog
Windows Azure AppFabric Team blog
Windows Azure Connect Team blog
AppFabricCAT blog
RobinDotNet’s blog
OakLeaf Systems blog (mine)
Neil MacKenzie’s Covective blog
Cheers,
–rj
June 16, 2011 at 8:55 am
@Roger – thank you! I’m now listing all the ones you suggested.
March 28, 2012 at 8:40 pm
I love the content on buck woody’s blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/
April 15, 2012 at 12:02 am
Thank you for your list.
April 21, 2013 at 7:35 am
From an Windows Azure Architecture stand point I see this blog is quite well written – http://trinityordestiny.blogspot.com/