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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.

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.

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.

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…

Fully managed SignalR Service on Azure – in Preview

by Varun KumarAugust 26, 2018August 28, 2018

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…

Azure CDN to Improve your website’s performance and responsiveness

by Varun KumarAugust 8, 2018August 28, 2018

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…

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…

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Fully managed SignalR Service on Azure – in Preview

Azure CDN to Improve your website’s performance and responsiveness

What is a content delivery network?

Microsoft Azure vs Amazon Web Services – Battle Field

Cloud Avenue Architecture Center

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

Processing Sensors data using Azure IOT Suite

Online Hotel Channel Manager using Azure PaaS and Hangfire

Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks Overview

Workspaces

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Import and export configuration in Azure App Configuration Store

Managing App Settings made easy with Azure App Configuration

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

Introduction to Azure Service Fabric

Move Azure resources to another subscription or resource group

Creating a SignalR Service on Azure

Fully managed SignalR Service on Azure – in Preview

Delivering Messages Made Easy With Azure Service Bus

PowerApps Getting Started

Azure CDN to Improve your website’s performance and responsiveness

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

What is Data Governance?

Microsoft Azure vs Amazon Web Services – Battle Field

Creating Data Lake in Azure

Microsoft Azure Data Lake Store: an introduction

Performance improvement of map reduce through new Hadoop block placement algorithm

Synchronizing your database with Azure SQL Data Sync Service

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