by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | May 24, 2018 | Azure, Security
Reading Time: 3 minutesMicrosoft Azure provides a way to manage cryptographic keys and application secrets in a way that it doesn’t expose them to applications. Let’s say that you have a web application and you access this application via a key stored in... 
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | May 21, 2018 | Azure, Azure SQL Database, SQL Server
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this post, you will read about the differences between index tuning in SQL Server (on-premises) and SQL Azure (cloud). But what is an index? Consider an index as a contents page. When comparing a SQL database index and a Contents page in a... 
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | May 18, 2018 | Azure, Integration
Reading Time: 3 minutesAzure Service Bus is a cloud delivery messaging service. Azure Service Bus Models Service bus has two primary ways of enabling messaging, these are : Queue model [one to one]: Many Front End applications send messages to the queue and one... 
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | May 17, 2018 | Azure, Portal
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 2018, Microsoft announced the possibility to customize Azure Portal dashboard. How can someone do that? Easy, since it is familiar with JSON format its piece of cake. It’s only three steps, download JSON – edit JSON file –... 
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | May 16, 2018 | Azure, NoSQL
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn my previous post i wrote about Azure Cosmos DB. In this one i will talk about migration methods to Cosmos DB. Download Azure Document DB migration tool from here. DocumentDB Data Migration Tool gives you the ability to migrate data from... 
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | May 15, 2018 | Azure, NoSQL
Reading Time: 3 minutesAzure Cosmos DB is a No SQL database and is an expansion of Document DB features. In a few words with Cosmos DB, you can handle your data using document (JSON), key-value and graph database globally. Benefits of Cosmos DB Scalability Horizontal...
