Microsoft has announced the availability of first release candidate (RC) of Azure DevOps Server 2019. The Azure DevOps Server(previously TFS/Team Foundation Server) delivers the Azure DevOps Services optimized for customers who prefer to self-host these devops services on-premises. Key Features included/improved : Branding Changes Azure DevOps Server includes support for Azure SQL in addition to… Continue reading
Category: Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
Visual Studio 2017–Version 15.9.0 released
Microsoft has today released Visual Studio 2017 – Update 15.9.0 with lots of bug fixed and improvements to the IDE for stability and performance. Release Notes: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Minor Release Download the latest update from: visualstudio.com/downloads Latest News: There is a new service update released on November 15, 2018 — Visual Studio… Continue reading
Global Office 365 Developer Bootcamp–Letterkenny-Nov’10 2018–Register Now
We have got the opportunity to host Global Office 365 Developer Bootcamp in Letterkenny as part of Letterkenny DotNet Azure User Group (LK-MUG). Global Office 365 Developer Bootcamp – Overview? Following the success of last year, Global Office 365 Developer Bootcamp now becomes an annual event. It is a free, one-day, hands-on training event led… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB – TTL (Time to Live) – Reference Usecase
TTL capability within Azure Cosmos DB is a live saver, as it would take necessary steps to purge redudent data based on the configurations you may. Let us think in terms of an Industrial IoT scenario, devices can produce vast amounts of telemetry information, logs and user session information that is only useful until we… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB–Multi Master
During the Ignite 2018, Microsoft has announced the general availability of Multi-Master feature being introduced to Azure Cosmos DB to provide more control into data redundancy and elastic scalability for your data from different regions with multiple writes and read instances. What is Multi-Master essentially? Multi-master is a capability that provided as part of Cosmos… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB–Reserved Capacity
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
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 CLI is the next improved version with simplified cmdlets to make life easier and it is cross-platform. You can use Azure… Continue reading