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Introduction to Azure Service Fabric

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Azure Service Fabric is platform as a service (PaaS) offering from Microsoft for developers to build and host scalable distributed systems. Service Fabric is a core of many of the Microsoft Azure cloud services such as Cosmos DB, SQL Server, Azure Event Hub, Azure IOT Hub, Cortana, Skype for Business,…
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SQL Introduction
SQL stands for “Structured Query Language”. It is a query language used for accessing and modifying information in the database. IBM first developed SQL in 1970s. It has become a Standard Universal Language used by most of the relational database management systems (RDBMS). Some of the RDBMS systems are: Oracle, Microsoft SQL server, Sybase etc. Most […]

Using Service Bus Explorer to manage and test Service Bus Queues, topics, relays, event hubs and notification hubs
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Azure Service Bus Azure Service bus is a highly scalable service that helps achieving asynchronous messaging and exchanging data among decoupled systems. The purpose of this service is to make Integration reliable and highly available with the help of message queuing. It is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering from…

What is Data Governance?
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Data Governance refers to the strategy of managing and controlling data throughout the enterprise and thus ensuring to derive more value from that data. It is about enabling and encouraging good behavior regarding data, and limiting behaviors that create risks. It is important for enterprises because it ensures that the data is…

Microsoft Azure vs Amazon Web Services – Battle Field
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It’s been 12 years now, since Amazon Web Services or AWS was launched, almost 4 years before the actual launch of Microsoft Azure in 2010. Both the players in cloud have grown significantly in past few years. Despite a head start initially, first-quarter cloud-revenue for AWS is $5.44 billion and…
Microsoft Azure Data Lake Store: an introduction
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Performance improvement of map reduce through new Hadoop block placement algorithm
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HDFS estimates the network bandwidth between two nodes by their distance. The distance from a node to its parent node is assumed to be one. A shorter distance between two nodes means that the greater bandwidth they can utilize to transfer data. The placement of replica is critical to HDFS…

Azure SQL Data Sync Service
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Azure SQL Data Sync is a service built on Azure SQL Database that allows to synchronize data from one or many disparate SQL data sources either on-premises or Azure SQL Databases to a single Azure SQL Database (called as Hub) and vice versa. The data can be synced manually or automatically…
Migrating data from different sources to DocumentDB
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HDFS Pipelining to minimize inter-node network traffic
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