Joshua Feierman Azure Networking for SQL Server DBAs The network is important to any DBA because so much performance is dependent on I/O, because of the importance of... 27 March 2017 15 min read
Christos Matskas Introduction to Azure Logic Apps LogicApps are a managed service that provides the Lego blocks of Azure serverless architecture that you can use to create,... 07 March 2017 8 min read
Database Administration Joshua Feierman in Database Administration Exploring Azure Storage for SQL Server DBAs – Part 2 Managed Disks have simplified way that Azure storage interacts with the users' virtual machines, thanks to the way that it... 27 February 2017 15 min read
Azure Christos Matskas in Azure Serverless Architecture with Azure Azure provides an ideal platform for hosting microservices because it offers a number of managed services that allow developers to... 24 February 2017 7 min read
.NET Tom Fischer in .NET Using AWS’s Simple Workflow Service (SWF) with C# Amazon's Simple Workflow Service (SWF) in AWS provides a model of workflow that is simple to understand but is it... 12 January 2017 27 min read
Database Administration Joshua Feierman in Database Administration Exploring Azure Storage for SQL Server DBAs If you need to run SQL Server in an Azure Virtual Machine, your choice of Azure storage will have a... 04 January 2017 14 min read
Bartosz Owczarek Why Would I Ever Need to Partition My Big ‘Raw’ Data? Whether you are running an RDBMS, or a Big Data system, it is important to consider your data-partitioning strategy. As... 04 October 2016 11 min read
Krzysztof Stanaszek How to Start Big Data with Apache Spark It is worth getting familiar with Apache Spark because it a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing and... 16 September 2016 15 min read
Platform as a Service Robert Sheldon in Platform as a Service Windows Containers and Docker Windows Server 2016 features support for containers. These are not Linux-based, but containers that run on Windows and run Windows... 04 July 2016 11 min read
Robert Sheldon The Logical Data Warehouse – Towards a Single View of All the Data What is wrong with the Enterprise Data Warehouse? Quite a lot, it seems. By taking the narrow view that the... 09 November 2015 14 min read
Robert Sheldon OpenStack: The Good and Not-So-Good Bits OpenStack holds a great deal of promise as a cloud platform built on open standards, and has support from the... 03 September 2015 15 min read
Robert Sheldon An Introduction to the OpenPOWER Foundation In a bid to challenge Intel's dominance of high performance computing environments, IBM have introduced OpenPOWER, a flexible open-source framework... 03 August 2015 12 min read
Robert Sheldon Microservices in Promise and Practice Are microservices the cure for the ague of monolithic applications, or do they bring their own problems with them that... 13 April 2015 18 min read
Robert Sheldon The Internet of Things: A New World Order? Was the marketing hook 'The Internet of Things' conjured up before the technical definition? Are we being persuaded to spend... 10 March 2015 15 min read
Robert Sheldon Application Containers For Cloud Computing Containers promise to make applications more portable and efficient. The technology, originally based on Linux's cgroups, provides a way of... 11 February 2015 12 min read
AWS Robert Sheldon in AWS Amazon’s Aurora: A Distributed SQL Database Alternative For MySQL Applications SQL-based distributed Cloud Relational databases aren't new, but Amazon's Aurora offers an alternative to SQL Azure, and, being MySQL-compatible, provides... 15 January 2015 13 min read
Jaap Wesselius Cloud Identities versus Federated Identities in Office 365 Identities, the 'accounts' by which Cloud and Web users identify themselves, are tricky to manage, and tiresome for the users.... 01 December 2014 8 min read
Robert Sheldon Data as a Service: The Next "As a Service" Wave? There was a time that data seemed part of the application that maintained and used it. Now, there is increasing... 19 November 2014 15 min read
Robert Sheldon Stop Relying on Cloud File Stores as a Backup Strategy There is a growing assumption that Cloud file-storage services represent an ideal way of backing up files. It seems a... 22 October 2014 17 min read
Robert Sheldon Deleting Files in the Cloud The public perception is that, when something is deleted, it no longer exists. IT in general prefers the fuzzier idea... 23 September 2014 15 min read