Learnt lessons, better be shared.
Azure Cosmos Db has an impressive feature called 'Change feed'. It enables capturing the changes in the data (inserts and updates) and provides an unified API to access those captured change events. The change event data feed can be used as an event source in the applications. You can read about the overview of this feature... Continue Reading →
I came across the term 'Overambitious API Gateways' from Thought Works tech radar. The point is about, whether is it good or bad to have business logic in the API gateway? Since the term gateway is not a functional requirement and serves the purpose of reverse proxy; it is quite obvious that including business... Continue Reading →
This is observed in Visual Studio Cloud Service Template (Environment VS 2015 Enterprise Update 3 and Azure SDK 2.9.6 with .NET 4.6). This could be observed in most of the other versions – probably in Azure SDK version 2.4 and above, but I stated my working environment as soon or later this issue will be... Continue Reading →
Being part of a software services company, customers often ask the question how to restrict access to Azure resources. It is understandable that any organization wouldn’t prefer to give all the rights of the organizational Azure subscription to a person. In the classic Azure model the only way to give access to Azure portal is,... Continue Reading →
Are you handing more than one SQL database in Azure for your application ? Most of the times the answer would be YES. In dedicated database multi-tenant systems at least you have your customer information in the master database and dedicated application database for each customers. Some CRUD operations need to touch both the master... Continue Reading →
This post summarizes and lists down the information you need to solve the specific error which occurs when you try to delete a AAD. There are plenty of articles for this and I recommend to read the link below which explains very frequent error messages of AAD and the fixes. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2967860 Also read this blog... Continue Reading →
Couple of weeks back I posted an article on how to design an online forum application on top of Azure Table Storage. This post is about how to design the same application using Azure Document DB. Same as the previous article, I want to stress the point that the way we design an application and... Continue Reading →
NoSQL technologies provide solutions for issues that relational databases cannot provide. At the same time, designing an application on top of a NoSQL technology requires specific technology dependent design decisions and architecture. This post addresses the issue and explains how to model a real world problem using Azure Table Storage. This is neither an introduction... Continue Reading →
