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Fully managed SignalR Service on Azure – in Preview

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.

Azure CDN to Improve your website’s performance and responsiveness

What is a content delivery network?

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.

Microsoft Azure vs Amazon Web Services – Battle Field

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:

Cloud Avenue Architecture Center

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.

Mobile Back-end using AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Mobile Hub/AWS Amplify

A manageable, secure, scalable, high performance, highly available, fault tolerant and recoverable architecture for mobile application back-end.

Processing Sensors data using Azure IOT Suite

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.

Online Hotel Channel Manager using Azure PaaS and Hangfire

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.

Azure Databricks

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.

Azure Databricks Overview

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.

Read More “Azure Databricks Overview”

Workspaces

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.

Site Reliability Engineering – Error Budget

by Varun KumarApril 9, 2020April 9, 2020

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,…

Site Reliability Engineering – Measuring Service behaviors

by Varun KumarApril 9, 2020April 9, 2020

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…

Site Reliability Engineering – Reducing Toil

by Varun KumarApril 9, 2020April 9, 2020

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…

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

by Varun KumarApril 23, 2019April 23, 2019

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,…

Import and export configuration in Azure App Configuration Store

by Varun KumarApril 22, 2019

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…

Managing App Settings made easy with Azure App Configuration

by Varun KumarApril 22, 2019April 23, 2019

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…

Export and Import entities with set configurations and Authorization Rules using Servicebus Explorer

by Varun KumarMarch 22, 2019March 22, 2019

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. To Read about Service Bus Explorer please read article: Using Service Bus Explorer to manage…

Introduction to Azure Service Fabric

by Varun KumarOctober 6, 2018

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,…

Move Azure resources to another subscription or resource group

by Varun KumarOctober 6, 2018October 6, 2018

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…

Creating a SignalR Service on Azure

by Varun KumarAugust 26, 2018August 28, 2018

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…

Delivering Messages Made Easy With Azure Service Bus

by Varun KumarAugust 26, 2018August 28, 2018

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…

PowerApps Getting Started

by Meghna KhareraAugust 22, 2018August 23, 2018

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…

Using Service Bus Explorer to manage and test Service Bus Queues, topics, relays, event hubs and notification hubs

by Varun KumarAugust 8, 2018March 25, 2019

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 queuing.…

What is Data Governance?

by Himani GuptaJuly 30, 2018August 27, 2018

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…

Creating Data Lake in Azure

by Varun KumarJune 15, 2018August 9, 2018

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…

Microsoft Azure Data Lake Store: an introduction

by Varun KumarJune 14, 2018August 28, 2018

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,…

Performance improvement of map reduce through new Hadoop block placement algorithm

by Varun KumarNovember 15, 2017August 10, 2018

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…

Synchronizing your database with Azure SQL Data Sync Service

by Varun KumarNovember 11, 2017August 9, 2018

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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