Serverless compute with Azure Functions - Getting Started

I meant to write about Azure Functions & serverless computing for quite a while now.  So here we go.

This entry is meant as a “getting started” entry with pointers to documentation and general discussion.  We’ll dive deeper in future articles.

Serverless

What is serverless computing?

Using Application Gateway with VNET peering

As I write these lines (early November 2017), Application Gateway doesn’t integrate well across VNET peering.

More precisely, if we put the gateway in a VNET and have scale sets in another, the usual integration, where the scale set registers its VM automatically as the size of the set...

Disaster Recovery with VM Scale Sets & Geo-Replicated DBs

Last year we posted an article about different options available in Azure to implement a disaster recovery strategy.

We strongly suggest to review that article as it gives good insights about what a disaster recovery strategy is within an already resilient Cloud Environment but also clear out a...

A few CosmosDB query limitations

I’ve been working quite a bit with Cosmos DB since it was release in Private Preview (see my first article about it back in September 2014 as a battle scar).

It has come a long way.

From DocumentDB, the NoSQL document-oriented DB to Cosmos DB, the Globally distributed...

Setup for populating Cosmos DB with random data using Logic Apps

We recently published an article about Cosmos DB Performance with Geospatial Data.

In this article, we’re going to explain how to setup the environment in order to run those performance test.

More importantly, we believe this article is interesting on its own as it shows how to use...