Azure Search is a Platform as a Service offering that gives developers APIs needed to add search functionality to their applications. Primarily this means full-text search. The typical example is h...

Redis Cache is a key-value store NoSQL database. Its implementation is very similar to Azure Table Storage. The main difference is Redis is very high performing by keeping the data in memory most o...

Azure Cosmos DB DocumentDB is a JSON document store NoSQL database, similar to MongoDB. JSON document stores are the fastest growing NoSQL solutions. The reason why it’s growing so fast is that it ...

Microsoft Azure offers with Azure SQL database a great alternative to an on-premise SQL database. In this post, I will talk about the advantages of having the database in the cloud, how to get data...

Azure Storage has a built-in analytics feature called Azure Storage Analytics used for collecting metrics and logging storage request activity. Storage Analytics Metrics are used to collect aggrega...

Azure Storage Tables can store tabular data at petabyte scale. Azure Queue storage is used to provide messaging between application components, as they can be de-coupled and scaled individually. A...

Azure provides several methods of storing files, including Azure Storage blobs and Azure Files. In this post, I want to talk about the differences between them and how to use them. Azure Storage b...

Azure DevTest Labs is a service designed to help developers and testers quickly spin up virtual machines (VMs) or complete environments in Azure, enabling rapid deployment and testing of applicatio...

To guarantee high availability, your applications should run on multiple identical virtual machines so that your application is not affected when a small subset of these VMs is not available due to...

To monitor VMs in Azure means collecting and analyzing different metrics as well as collection log data from system log files and from applications running within the VMs. It is possible to configu...