Project Cloud Service Fundamentals

Cloud Service Fundamentals (CSF) is an open source project created by Microsoft Azure CAT team. The purpose is to provide best practices on dealing with common Azure project challenges: SQL Azure Retry, SQL Sharding, Logging, Telemetry, Configuration, Caching, Server Affinity, etc.

The project can be found at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/Cloud-Fundamentals-in-1a3ab1bd
Here is a decoupled and componentized version of CSF. The CSF project is decoupled into 4 components: Common Library, CSF Social Web App, Telemetry and Gateway.

Live testing sites:
•CSF Web App: http://dancsf.azurewebsites.net/
•Telemetry Report: https://5zjgywiud3.reporting.windows.net/ReportServer    dan/test@123
•Gateway: https://dangateway.cloudapp.net  user1@danyang.onmicrosoft.com/test@123
•Code:  http://sdrv.ms/12RSXID  (CSF)  , http://sdrv.ms/12RSZjM   (Gateway)