In the world of globally distributed applications, ensuring users connect to the optimal endpoint is crucial for performance and reliability. Azure Traffic Manager stands as Microsoft’s DNS-based traffic load balancer, enabling you to distribute traffic across global Azure regions and external endpoints. After architecting numerous multi-region deployments, I’ve come to appreciate Traffic Manager as an… Continue reading
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Azure Cosmos DB: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Globally Distributed Databases
Throughout my career architecting distributed systems, few database decisions have proven as consequential as choosing the right globally distributed data platform. Azure Cosmos DB represents Microsoft’s answer to the challenge of building planet-scale applications—a fully managed NoSQL database service that delivers single-digit millisecond latency anywhere in the world. After implementing Cosmos DB across numerous enterprise… Continue reading