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
Category: Resilliancy
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 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
Azure Functions App–Run OnDemand Serverless code – a path way to Serverless Computing
Azure Functions is a new cloud solution from Azure that would let you execute small pieces code or “functions” in the cloud. This means you do not have to worry about the infrastructure or environment to execute your little piece of code to solve any of your business problems. Functions can make development even more… Continue reading
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… Continue reading