How to achieve high-performance REST API on Azure with .NET?

Question

We have a .NET Web Role hosted on Windows Azure that only serves a REST API with only a hand few web methods.

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Answer 1

I found the initialization of blob storage (CreateCloudBlobClient(), GetContainerReference() etc) to be quite slow. It's a good idea to take this into consideration when designing Azure services.

I have separate services for anything that requires blob access as it dragged down the time for the pure db requests.