During Microsoft Build 2017(May 10th 2017) conference in Seattle, Scott Guthrie (EVP of Cloud and Enterprise Group) announced two new offerings to the Azure Database Services Platform, Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL. I was happy that Microsoft is filling the gap for the need of Fully Managed MYSQL and PostgreSQL .… Continue reading
Category: Windows Azure Development
Microsoft Build Tour – Hyderabad, 21,22 June 2017
The Microsoft Build Tour brings the best of Microsoft Build right to you. Developers building Line of Business or consumer applications using Cloud or traditional desktop technologies will hear firsthand from Microsoft experts about the latest technical news and updates from the Microsoft Build conference. Date & Timings: · DAY1 – Wednesday, June 21, 2017… Continue reading
Getting Started local development with Azure Cosmos DB services – Part 2
In my previous article we discussed about setting local development environment using Cosmos DB Emulator for Windows. With this part 2 of the article, we will cover developing, debugging and integration related aspects of using Cosmos DB Emulator. Developing with Cosmos DB Emulator Once you have Cosmos DB emulator installed and running on your machine,… Continue reading
Getting Started local development with Azure Cosmos DB services – Part 1
Azure Cosmos DB is a multi-API, multi-model highly scalable NoSQL database services from Microsoft Azure platform. In order to develop an application consuming Azure Cosmos DB requires an azure live subscription or emulator in your local machine. The Azure Cosmos DB Emulator provides a local development/test environment for Azure Cosmos DB development purposes. Using Azure… Continue reading
Azure SDK for .NET 3.0 available for Visual Studio 2015/2017
Windows Azure SDK for .NET, which include SDKs, basic tools, and extended tools for Visual Studio development for Azure Cloud enabled applications. Microsoft has released latest Azure SDK for .NET along with Visual Studio 2017 (RTW). The new version v3.0 will support only Visual Studio 2015/2017, if you are using Visual Studio 2013 you can… Continue reading
Azure Tips: Service Bus vs Azure Queue
Azure Service bus is a queuing technology that supports advanced features and allows access by processes created using various technologies and running in different domains. It allows ability to publish a message to multiple subscribers. read more Azure Queue is another queuing technology. However, it does not support the ability to publish a message to… Continue reading
Redis Cache–Azure Plans
Azure Redis Cache, a secure data cache based on Open source Redis Cache, which will provide you a fully managed/serviced instance from Microsoft. Means you don’t have to bear the burden of managing the server/software patches etc.. What is Redis Cache? Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 – Download
Today Microsoft has released Update 3 for Visual Studio 2015. Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 includes a variety of capability improvements and bug fixes. To find out what’s new, see the Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 Release Notes. For a list of fixed bugs and known issues, see the Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 MSDN… Continue reading
New Certification – MCSD – Azure Solution Architect
Microsoft has made availability of new MCSD certification called as “MCSD – Azure Solutions Architect“. Required Exams: 070-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions 070-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions 070-534: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Once you complete the above required exams you will be awarded MCSD – Azure Solutions Architect certificate valid for 2 years. PS:… Continue reading
All you need to know about Microsoft Azure Stack(Azure on On-Premises
Typically it is a hype among people that if a product comes from Microsoft, it needs to be criticized and thinking Microsoft would only be promoting their products with Azure. That’s not right and I would say we are being judgmental without even looking at the capabilities on Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure the prime competitor… Continue reading