Description of your REST API: Swagger & RAML

About a year ago I did a post about WADL. I hope you didn’t build a billion dollars business model around that initiative because it hasn’t left the ground yet :(

WADL, or Web Application Description Language for the initiated, was aimed to be what WSDL is for SOAP Web Services but for REST.

You see, the thing with...

Scaling a Multi-Tenant Application with Azure DocumentDB

Following the release of Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft NoSQL document-oriented fully managed database, in preview mode, there was initial curiosity. Now we are starting to see more focused questions: how does it scale, can it expose OData, how would I go about architecture my department app around it as the back-end, etc. .

John Macintyre, Program Manager for Azure...

Large Projects

There is something about large projects that you'll never find, hence never learn, in smaller projects. The complexity, both technical and in terms of people dynamics, creates an all new set of challenges.

I read the article I Survived an ERP Implementation – Top 10 Gems of Advice I Learned the Hard Way at the beginning of the...

Querying Collections with DocumentDB Studio

I released a first Release Candidate (RC) of DocumentDB Studio (release 1.0.0.1).

DocumentDB Studio is to Azure DocumentDB what SQL Management Studio is to SQL Server and SQL Azure: a one-stop shop to manage and interact with your DocumentDB.

I posted an installation guide of the application and an upgrade guide (both very simple).

DocumentDB Studio 1.0.0 released!

Yes, the first non-beta version!

Ok, what is the difference between the betas and this one? Alpha, Beta and RC are always separated by arbitrary grass lanes…

For DocumentDB Studio, I was waiting to have a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) and for me the MVP was related to be able to query document collections.

Version 1.0.0...