Azure Cosmos DB is a planet scale global document database which have been available for Azure Customers based on pay-as-you-go. Reserved Capacity is a new long term pre-paid billing commitment customers can get a discounted pricing. Azure Cosmos DB reserved capacity helps you save money by pre-paying for Azure Cosmos DB resources for a period… Continue reading
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Azure Cosmos DB – 429 Too Many Requests
Recently while I was doing Performance Testing in one of the APIs interacting with Cosmos DB, I encountered a problem as Azure Cosmos DB API’s started returning Http Code 429. Http Status Code 429 indicates that too many request been received or request rate is very large. This error would happen when we have concurrent… Continue reading
Azure Database for MariaDB: Public Preview
During Ignite 2018, Microsoft has announced the availability of Maria DB support in Azure Database services. Today it has been opened for Public Preview for all Azure customers. What is MariaDB? MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system intended to remain free under the GNU GPL.Development is led by some… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB–Setting Up New Database using Azure CLI–Sample
Purpose of this article is to help you with few steps of commands to provision a new Azure Cosmos DB database instance through Azure CLI or Azure Cloud Shell. Here is the snippet: <# This Bash script should help you create a Azure Cosmos DB instance using Azure CLI with bare minimal configuration #> export… Continue reading
Getting Started with Azure CLI 2.0
Older days we used to manage azure resources through AzureRM PowerShell modules . This was very much flexible for any Azure Administrator or Developers to run Automated Deployments to Azure Resource Manager resources. Azure CLIÂ is the next improved version with simplified cmdlets to make life easier and it is cross-platform. You can use Azure… Continue reading
NDepend–VSTS/Azure DevOps Integration–Part 01
In my previous article I wrote an introductory about NDepend and how it will be useful for Agile Team to ensure code quality. In that article we found how we can use NDepend in a developer machine. Now with this article we will familiarize ourselves in using NDepend in your build automation pipeline in your… Continue reading
New Microsoft Azure Certifications
Microsoft has recently announced new certification exam tracks for Azure Administrators, Developers and Architects. Here are the line ups that should help you move your career with right certifications. The three new Microsoft Azure Certifications are: Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Microsoft Certified Azure Architect These certifications would essentially split the previous… Continue reading
70-777 – Azure Cosmos DB Certification Exam (BETA)
“70-777: Implementing Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Solutions” is the new Microsoft certification in the town for any Developer or Architect who leverages Azure Cosmos DB. If you understand how Cosmos DB database can be configured and consumed using platform agnostic Cosmos DB API, this certification will help you prove your expertise. To read more about… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB – Change feed support(PREVIEW)–available
Today Microsoft announced the preview of Change feed Support for Azure Cosmos DB, which allows you to build scalable solutions. By default change feed will be enabled in all the accounts. Change feed provides an output of sorted list of documents that has been changed in the order in which they are modified by client… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB – Consistency Levels
CosmosDB is a planet scale multi model, multi-region NoSQL database service provided as part of Azure Platform. Azure Cosmos DB is designed to provide global distribution for every data model you choose while creating Cosmos DB. It is promised to provide low latency and various well-defined consistency models to ensure data redundancy and high availability.… Continue reading