Last month was an amazing month for all who love Microsoft Azure. The release of DocumentDB, some updates to HDInsight and the preview of Microsoft Azure Machine Learning are just a few of these great moments. Some of the announcements can be found in today’s Links of the month, enriched with some articles related to ASP.NET and a very interesting GitHub project.

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Implementing Group-Based Permissions Management
• Use SignalR to Build Real-Time Connectivity into Your Software
• Announcing the Release Candidate for Web API OData 5.3

Microsoft Azure

• New DocumentDB NoSQL Service, New Search Service, New SQL AlwaysOn VM Template, and more
• Azure DocumentDB .NET Code Samples
• How to train your MAML – Importing data
• Free ebook: Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure
• MyGet Now Available in the Azure Store
• Azure HDInsight makes HBase a GA Feature

Miscellaneous

• RavenHQ Now Available in the Azure Store
• Office 365 APIs using AngularJS standalone websites – samples shipped
• Retrieving Data with Backbone and TypeScript
• Json.NET Updates: Merge, Dependency Injection, F# and JSONPath Support

GitHub

• DocumentDB.AspNet.Identity – A DocumentDB provider for the new ASP.NET Identity framework

Have fun!

Jan (@Horizon_Net)