Cosmos DB Configuration Management

I often found the need to automate Cosmos DB deployments.

I like to have users run an ARM template and be ready to go.  Automation is key component to repeatability.  It enables automated testing and increase agility in many other ways.

ARM Templates don’t go beyond a database account.

Using Azure Container Instances to complete automation

We looked at Azure Container Instances.

It allows us to launch a container without a cluster and without a VM.

It is ideal for bursting scenarios.

In this article we’ll look at another scenario for container instances:  automation.

The limits of ARM Templates

A great tool for automation...

Event Hubs ingestion performance and throughput

Azure Event Hubs is a data streaming platform as a Service.  It is an ingestion service.

We’ve looked at Event Hubs as the ingestion end of Azure Stream Analytics in two recent articles (here & here).

Here we look at client side performance of different...

Implementing & Automating Azure Stream Analytics Pipeline

In our last article, we set out to build a resilient architecture around streaming events.

In this article, we are going to build the solution.  We are going to use an ARM template which automates deployment.  We will also go through the configuration of different services.

The goal...

Taming the fire hose: Azure Stream Analytics

We came upon an interesting challenge recently.

Let’s have a stream of events pouring in.  The source is unimportant.  Hundreds, peeking at thousands, of events per second.

We need to update a table in Azure SQL with a summary of the events.

Let’s just assume the events are about...