With this article I am trying to provide you a birds eye view comparison of IoT Hub and Azure Event Hub, so that some of you may stop feeling that there is nothing new in IoT Hub. For the interest of this article, I put together a table with side-by-side comparison of some important features/desired […]
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Introduction to IoT Hub
IoT Hub is a fully managed service from Microsoft Azure as part of Azure IoT Suite that enables reliable and secure bi-directional communications between millions of IoT devices and your solution back end. Azure IoT Hub are designed to provide following capabilities: Multiple device-to-cloud and cloud-to-device communication options, including one-way messaging, file transfer, and request-reply […]
Read more →Scalability – Scale Out/In vs Scale Up/Down (Horizontal Scaling vs Vertical Scaling)
When you work with Cloud Computing or normal Scalable highly available applications you would normally hear two terminologies called Scale Out and Scale Up or often called as Horizontal Scaling and Vertical Scaling. I thought about covering basics and provide more clarity for developers and IT specialists. What is Scalability? Scalability is the capability of […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →Back to Basics : Singleton Design Pattern using System.Lazy type
This article takes you to a simpler/alternative approach in making a Singleton Design Pattern implementation using System.Lazy class rather that using our traditional approach. Singleton Design Pattern implementation without lazy initialization: This code is thread safe enabled This approach ensures that only one instance is created and only when the instance is needed. Also, the […]
Read more →Static vs Singleton Classes
Recently while I was attending an interview I came across a question Static vs Singleton. Though I know the differences I couldn’t answer it properly, as I was not refreshed my programming knowledge before the interview. I would like to quote a reference to Jalpesh’s blog article (www.dotnetjalps.com) explaining the difference: Difference between Static and […]
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