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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
