Azure SQL Elastic Pool Overview

What is Azure SQL Elastic Pool and what it brings to Azure SQL Database, the SQL Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS).

Traditional model

Let’s look at how Azure SQL works without elastic pools first.

Azure SQL Database comes with...

Moving existing workloads to Azure

Applications born in the cloud can take full advantage of the cloud and the agility it brings.

But there are a lot of existing solutions out there that weren’t born in the cloud.

In this article I want to sketch a very high level approach on how...

Nuget WordPress REST API – Demo App

I’ve had a few requests to explain how to use the Nuget WordPress REST API beyond authentication.

In order to do this, I added a Demo App under source control.

The Nuget package source code is available at http://wordpressrestapi.codeplex.com/ and if you download the code, you’ll see there are 3 projects:

• WordpressRestApi:  essentially the Nuget package
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Azure Monitoring - SIEM integration

Quite a few of my customers have a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) on premise.  They spent thousands of dollars fine tuning it to detect and correlate security events, it’s integrated with their ticketing system, but mostly…  it has been sanctioned as the corporate security...

Primer on Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor is the latest evolution of a set of technologies allowing Azure resources monitoring.

I’ve written about going the extra mile to be able to analyze logs in the past.

The thing is that once our stuff is in production with tons of users hitting...