A complete end-to-end guide to implement Azure Functions and serverless orchestration.
Serverless is the current ongoing trend in the cloud industry that allows you to focus on code without worrying about the underlying infrastructure and helps in cost optimizations by providing pay for what you use. Learn how to create and work on Azure functions through various use cases, illustrations, and visual representation to address complex problems. Buy on Amazon
ASP.NET Core SignalR is an open source library for ASP.NET Core developers that makes it extremely simple to add real-time web functionality, ability for server-side code to push content in real-time, to the connected clients. As a result, clients are updated without polling the server, or submitting a new HTTP request for updates.
Real-time technologies have become integral part of many the applications today. This need can easily be sorted out using Azure SignalR Service. The Azure SignalR Service is an Azure service based on ASP.NET Core SignalR. Microsoft Azure SignalR Service is currently in Public Preview.
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A content delivery network (CDN) is a network distributed and interconnected servers that deliver pages and other Web content to a user much faster, based on the geographic locations of the user. The goal is to distribute web content to provide high availability and high performance. The CDN has become critical component of modern web applications and today the majority of web traffic is served through CDNs, including traffic from major sites like Facebook and Amazon. It also provides protection to the site from malicious attacks.
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It’s been 12 years now, since Amazon Web Services or AWS was launched, almost 4 years before the actual launch of Microsoft Azure in 2010. Both the players in cloud have grown significantly in past few years. Despite a head start initially, first-quarter cloud-revenue for AWS is $5.44 billion and Microsoft as the world’s leading enterprise-cloud provider reported its commercial-cloud revenue of $6.0 billion. Though both Azure and AWS provide a lot of services under multiple category and with different names, the basic concept of cloud computing technologies remains the same. This article focuses on the service offerings from both under various categories. Please click the specific group of services comparisons you are interested in:
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CloudAvenue Architecture Center contains reference architectures to help you design and implement secure, highly available, scalable, performant and fault tolerant solutions on AWS and Azure. In addition, disaster recovery and business continuity designs are provided to meet your application’s Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective.
A manageable, secure, scalable, high performance, highly available, fault tolerant and recoverable architecture for mobile application back-end.
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The architecture for IoT solutions is cloud native, microservice, and serverless based. Also, should be built as discrete services that are independently deployable, and able to scale independently.
A highly scalable PaaS solution, working on Azure, that effectively automates the process of online rates and inventory distribution, near real-time, minimizing the hassles associated with overbooking and mismatched inventory.
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Databricks is a managed platform for Apache Spark where you do not have to manage complex clusters or perform tedious maintenance tasks in order to use Spark. Databricks provides a stack of features in order to use capabilities of Spark effectively. It also provides set of sophisticated API that can help in automating the data workloads with the help of automated jobs. Databricks also role-based access control and other optimizations helps improve usability, reduce costs and complexity for administrators.
Microsoft Azure cloud services enable enterprises to manage data at scale in the cloud. That also open massive possibilities for predictive analytics, AI, and real-time applications. Apache Spark has become the platform of choice for building these applications but deploying and managing Spark at scale has remained challenging especially for enterprise with large numbers of users and strong security requirements.
Workspaces is similar to a folder structure in windows that allow you to organize all your work on Databricks. It allows you to save notebooks and libraries and share them across. Workspaces are not connected to data and are not used to store data but are used to work on data.
AWS offers a wide range of compute services, each with its unique features and pricing models. While compute resources are essential for running applications, it’s crucial to optimize costs and avoid overspending. In this blog post, we will explore strategies and best practices for optimizing AWS compute costs, helping you strike the right balance between performance and expenditure.
Running a database on the cloud offers immense flexibility and scalability, but it’s crucial to optimize costs to ensure you get the most value out of your investment. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) on AWS provides a managed database solution…
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In today’s world, data is the new oil. Companies, irrespective of their size and domain, are collecting data at an unprecedented pace. The primary challenge for most organizations is not the availability of data but the ability to make sense…
The term load balancing refers to the distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources. Load balancing aims to optimize resource use, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid overloading any single resource. It can also improve availability by sharing a workload across…
It has been very frustrating when you are not able to focus during important meetings due to distractions caused by the Teams notifications. Thankfully, Microsoft has understood the customer’s pain and taken this into consideration. The new feature of Microsoft…
I am honored and happy to post that my blog: Cloudavenue.in is listed in the Feedspot Top 100 Microsoft Azure Blogs and Websites To Follow in 2022 as rank #9 next to other top Azure blogs and websites. I really encourage people…
In Kubernetes, you don’t work with Pods directly, instead, you work with the deployments or Statefulsets, which is the blueprint of the Pod. You can think of it as one more layer of abstraction on containers and Pod. Working with deployments or Statefulsets makes the deployments, scaling and management of containers really easy.
Power BI connectors allow you to connect to your Azure DevOps Project and visualize the Work Items data in your reports. This helps you create rich and insightful reports that can make tracking and decision making much easier. The powerful…
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Azure DevOps Analytics allows you to connect and get the Azure DevOps Work Items data on Power BI report based on filter criteria provided, very easily. It’s available as a Preview Feature in Azure DevOps. To enable the Analytics view and…
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Ingress allows the services within the cluster to be exposed outside the cluster. It also provides load balancing capabilities for these requests. The routing is controlled by rules defined on the Ingress resource. For Ingress to work, the Kubernetes cluster also need to have an ingress controller.
While creating Power BI reports, there are scenarios where you are required to create single page reports with lots of visuals. To do the same, people increases the page size but it causes all the visual tightly pack inside the…
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Canary Deployment Strategy Canary deployment strategy allows the releases of an application incrementally to a subset of users. The applications are updated in small phases (e.g: 5%, 10%, 25%, 75%, 100%). It reduces the risk to a great extent as…
Asynchronous messaging and Event driven architectures are the building blocks of a truly scalable system, where the services can talk to each other and can scale up and down independently. Where, the outage of one service do not impact the…
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Find the below article by encorbusiness: here What Is Dynamics 365? Dynamics 365 is the Microsoft family of business applications. It promises to turn business process into business advantage for organizations everywhere. But what does that really mean? Dynamics 365…
Error budget is the mechanism to quantify allowed unreliability An error budget is the inverse of reliability. It defines how unreliable the service is allowed to be. This unavailability can a result of some planned/unplanned maintenance, hardware or infrastructure failure,…
To manage a service accurately, it is of paramount importance to understand the behaviors of the service that are critical for the business and how to measure and assess those behaviors. It is important to choose appropriate metrics to measure…
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What is Toil? Toil is the kind of work tied to running a production service that tends to be manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical, devoid of enduring value, and that scales linearly as a service grows SRE propose to keep operational…
Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying, scaling, and managing web applications and services on AWS without the need of knowing about the infrastructure to run those applications. Simply upload the application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles capacity provisioning,…
This article explains how to Import or export configuration data in Azure App Configuration To Read about Azure App Configuration please read article: Managing App Settings made easy with Azure App Configuration. Azure App Configuration data import and export feature enables to work…
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Distributed and micro-services based applications runs on multiple virtual machines or containers. Managing all the configuration settings for the services and components in such systems is a challenge. Spreading configuration settings across these components can lead to hard-to-troubleshoot errors during an…
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This article explains how to export import an Service bus entity (Queues/Topics/Relays) with all the configurations and Authorization Rules from one Service Bus to other using Service Bus Explorer. To Read about Service Bus Explorer please read article: Using Service…
Azure Service Fabric is platform as a service (PaaS) offering from Microsoft for developers to build and host scalable distributed systems. Service Fabric is a core of many of the Microsoft Azure cloud services such as Cosmos DB, SQL Server,…
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This article is about moving resources to another subscription or another resource group in the same subscription. This can be done using Azure portal, PowerShell, Azure CLI or the REST API. To move resources, the source resource group and the…
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Real-time technologies have become integral part of many the applications today. This need can easily be sorted out using Azure SignalR Service. The Azure SignalR Service is an Azure service based on ASP.NET Core SignalR. Please read my article Fully managed SignalR Service…
Integrating two different systems is often complicated and comes up with lots of challenges with respect to the availability of both systems, processing speed, scaling and many more. Amongst many recommendations for designing and developing applications for the cloud, enabling asynchronous…
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PowerApps is an enabler that lets Users to create and publish fully functional apps in a simple editor that doesn’t require you to write code. PowerApps is a service for building and using custom business apps that connect to your…
Azure Service Bus Azure Service bus is a highly scalable service that helps achieving asynchronous messaging and exchanging data among decoupled systems. The purpose of this service is to make Integration reliable and highly available with the help of message…
Data Governance refers to the strategy of managing and controlling data throughout the enterprise and thus ensuring to derive more value from that data. It is about enabling and encouraging good behavior regarding data, and limiting behaviors that create risks. It is…
In my previous blog I had given an introduction to Azure Data Lake and its offerings. In this blog I am going to show how to create a data lake in Azure using the Azure portal. To create a Data…
What is Data Lake? A data lake is a storage repository that holds a vast amount of raw data in its original format to apply analytics and run big data analysis. Data lake handles the three Vs of big data (Volume,…
HDFS estimates the network bandwidth between two nodes by their distance. The distance from a node to its parent node is assumed to be one. A shorter distance between two nodes means that the greater bandwidth they can utilize to…
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Azure SQL Data Sync is a service built on Azure SQL Database that allows to synchronize data from one or many disparate SQL data sources either on-premises or Azure SQL Databases to a single Azure SQL Database (called as Hub) and…
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The Hadoop Distributed File System, inspired by GFS from Google, is a distributed filesystem which runs on low cost commodity hardware in a fault tolerant manner to redundantly store Terabyte and larger data sets. The architecture of this filesystem is…
Microsoft has announced a limited preview of the Azure Database Migration Service and the corresponding Azure SQL Database Managed Instance in Microsoft Build 2017, worldwide, that will help in streamlining the migration process of on-premises databases to Azure. This new…
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In order to avoid placing new data, HDFS Block placement policy does not take into account DataNode disk space utilization. Hence, data this might cause non-uniform data placement across the cluster. Also, uneveness might occur when new nodes are being…
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Pipelining is the technique used by HDFS to minimize inter-node network traffic. Whenever the first block replica is written by a to a node, then it’s the responsibility of that node to write the second replica to a random off-rack…
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Apache Hadoop was initially developed by “Doug Cutting” in 2005 because he needed a faster data processing framework for the web crawler project called Nutch. Based on the MapReduce paper which was published by Google in 2004, he replaced the…
The DocumentDB Data Migration Tool is an open source tool for importing data to DocumentDB from a variety of sources such as JSON files, CSV files, MongoDB, SQL Server, Azure Table storage, Amazon DynamoDB, HBase etc The import tool can…
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Amazon Kinesis Firehose is a managed service to load real-time streaming data to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Redshift or Elastic search Service (ES). Firehose is part of the Amazon Kinesis streaming data platform, along with Amazon Kinesis Streams and Amazon Kinesis Analytics. There…
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Download Presentation There are many different queuing systems available like Kafka, MSMQ, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS etc. Azure Service Bus Brokered Messaging is a queuing system that is a scalable and feature-rich messaging service hosted in Microsoft Azure, or available as…
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