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How does Azure Data Warehouse scale?
Solution ·I’ve been diving in the fantastical world of Azure Data Warehouse (ADW) in the last couple of days.
I’ve been reading through all the documentation on Azure.com. If you are serious about mastering that service I advise you do the same: it is a worthy read.
In this article, I wanted to summarize a few concepts...
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Disaster Recovery with Azure Virtual Machines
Solution ·UPDATE 09-11-2017: See Disaster Recovery with VM Scale Sets & Geo-Replicated DBs for an example of the different concepts introduced here.
UPDATE 31-05-2017: This article was written in 07-2016. Today Microsoft announced Azure Site Recovery (ASR) support for Azure-to-Azure (in public preview). Options presented in this article are still valid but the assumption that ASR can’t help no is longer...
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DocumentDB protocol support for MongoDB
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Microsoft announced, in the wake of many DocumentDB announcement, that DocumentDB would support MongoDB protocol.What does that mean?
It means you can now swap a DocumentDB for a MongoDB and the client (e.g. your web application) will work the same.
This is huge.
It...
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Recreating VMs in Azure
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In this article I’m going to explain how to destroy VMs, keep their disks on the backburner and re-create them later.Why would you do that?
After all, you can shut down VMs and not be charged for it. You can later restart them and...
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Azure Export Template - Your new best friend
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Azure Resource Manager (ARM) basically is Azure Infrastructure version 2.0. It has been released for about a year now, although not all Azure Services have caught up yet.With ARM comes ARM templates. An ARM template is a description of a group of resources (and...
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon’s
Azure, Apps & Data
