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Want to work in the Astoria team? We’re hiring!

DB Blogs August 13, 2007 Aug 13, 2007 08/13/07

It’s been some time now since we switched from “incubation mode”, where it was just a couple of guys hacking stuff, into “production mode”, were we are building a product, following good engineering practices, spending a ton of time on every design detail and so on. We already have a solid Astoria team formed, but we could still use ...

Create your own hosted Astoria Data Service

DB Blogs August 3, 2007 Aug 3, 2007 08/3/07

At the Mix 2007 conference we announced an Astoria CTP which included two major pieces:  CTP bits you can download, install and run on your own systems and an experimental read only online service over a few sample (northwind, etc) sets of data that we hope will help us better understand the requirements and use cases of data interfaces ...

Transparency in the design process

DB Blogs July 20, 2007 Jul 20, 2007 07/20/07

We have been looking at various options to ensure that the design of Astoria truly reflects the requirements of the day to day challenges that our developer community faces when building real-world web applications and services. We would like to start by being as transparent as possible in the design process. I wanted to briefly describe how ...

Welcome!

DB Blogs July 18, 2007 Jul 18, 2007 07/18/07

Welcome to the Project Astoria Team Blog!  The Astoria team (part of the “Data Programmability” (DP) team within the SQL Server organization at Microsoft) is responsible for analyzing how current and next generation internet enabled applications use data on the web and to build solutions to facilitate such usage patterns.  For ...