Solution SLAs in Azure

Let’s talk about Service Level Agreement (SLA) of your solution in Azure.

Hal Berenson wrote a great article about SLA lately.  It is a great conceptual background for the present today.

Here we want to focus on how you should proceed to come up with an SLA for...

Azure Databricks - RDD - Resilient Distributed Dataset

We looked at Azure Databricks a few weeks ago.  Azure Databricks is a managed Apache Spark Cluster service.

In this article, we are going to look at & use a fundamental building block of Apache Spark:  Resilient Distributed Dataset or RDD.  We are going to use the...

Finding a VM Image Reference, Publisher & SKU

Automation is great.

I love to script solutions in Azure.

But most of the time, that automation started with me fumbling and trialing different approaches in the portal.  Once I got something around what I wanted I’ll automate.

I suspect you do the same thing.

This is why today we’re going...

Recurrent serverless batch job with Azure Batch

Most solutions have recurrent batch jobs, e.g. nightly / end-of-month batch jobs.

There are many services we can leverage in Azure to run those.  In this article, we are going to explore a service that has “Batch” in its name:  Azure Batch.

Azure Batch is typically positioned...

Azure Databricks - Getting Started

Apache Spark is rising in popularity as a Big Data platform.  It exists on this accelerated timeline for such an impactful technology.

Think about it:

• 2009, started as a Berkeley’s University project.
• 2010, open sourced
• 2013, donated to Apache Foundation
• 2014, becomes...