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  • Azure Service Bus Brokered Messaging

    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 Windows Azure, or available as part of the Windows Azure Pack in your own data center.

    Message Queue

    Message queue provides an asynchronous, decoupled message communication between two, or more, applications. The producer can submit the message to a queue with a guaranteed delivery to one or more consumers.  This decoupling enables applications running at different times to communicate across heterogeneous networks and systems that may be temporarily offline.

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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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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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,…

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Export and Import entities with set configurations and Authorization Rules using Service Bus Explorer

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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…

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

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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…

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What is Data Governance?

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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…

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