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. […]

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Azure Cosmos DB – Programatically Connect to a preferred location using the SQL API

Cosmos Db is a multi-region scallable, globally-distributed database solution as part of Microsoft Azure Platform.  With a button click, Azure Cosmos DB enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure’s geographic regions. It offers throughput, latency, availability, and consistency guarantees with comprehensive service level agreements (SLAs),  that no […]

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Azure Cosmos DB – Connection Policy – Setting Connection Mode and Connection Protocol

Recently I have been trying multiple ways to optimize CosmosDb SQL.NET SDK integration calls from my web application that sits within a VNET. After carefully analyzing different options available within Cosmos Db SQL API’s have realized there are different aspects we could optimize in achieving minimal turn around time. In this article I am going […]

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[NPM Tip] Error: self signed certificate in certificate chain

As a developer, if you are behind a corporate proxy that assigns an intermediatory self signed SSL certificate to every request to provide secure content filtering as part of cybersecurity measures, I am sure you might have gone through the pain to get it working when working with NodeJS. if you have Admin access to […]

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[NPM Tip] Rewriting the default protocol for GitHub package references

Some times as a Modern Web Developer you will face some “npm install” as some of the packages would be referring to git/ssh protocol to reference private packages from Git Hub. This would fail when you are behind a corporate proxy. Rewriting the default protocol for GitHub, run the following snippet in your command line […]

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Blazer – The new experimental web framework from Microsoft

In this world of multiple Web frameworks Microsoft would not want to stop experimenting with new frameworks for Web development. Innovation is a key to Microsoft, doesn’t matter the start later than the React(Facebook) and Angular(Google) , but Microsoft has proven most of the times they are good in developing cutting edge frameworks.  That’s how […]

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