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…
Varun Kumar
Varun works with Microsoft as a Cloud Consultant. He comes with 10+ years of experience into Consultant, Solution Architect, and Delivery Management roles. As a Consultant in Microsoft, his job is to design, develop and deploy enterprise level solutions using Azure, to help organizations to achieve more.
Using Service Bus Explorer to manage and test Service Bus Queues, topics, relays, event hubs and notification hubs
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.…
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…
Creating Data Lake in Azure
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
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
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
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…
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
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 Announced Azure Database Migration Service
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…
HDFS Balancer to balance disk space usage on the cluster
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…
