Cosmos DB is a cloud database product from Microsoft that offers scalable and high-performance services. The core product runs on a proprietary NoSQL database that should look familiar to experienced MongoDB developers. Microsoft offers several APIs in addition to the core Cosmos DB API. These include APIs for:
Read moreMicrosoft's Azure platform has as many high-tech products as anyone could ever want, including the Azure Static Web Apps service. As the name suggests, the platform hosts static web apps that don't require a back end. Azure supports React, Angular, Vue, Gatsby, and many more, out of the box.
Read moreAzure Cognitive Services is a collection of cloud-based AI products from Microsoft Azure to add cognitive intelligence into your applications quickly. With Azure Cognitive Services, you can add AI capabilities using pre-trained models, so you don't need machine learning or data science experience. Azure Cognitive Services has vision, speech, language,…
Read moreThere has been a cut-throat competition between cloud hosts in the past few years - each attempting to earn the sympathy of developers and dev-ops by rolling out shiny new tools, plugins, and integrations. There are a gazillion how-to tutorials and guides in the community on using these tools. Sometimes…
Read moreWhen I began programming (in the '80s), computers weren't equipped with a network card by default. The internet was almost unknown and modems were slow and noisy. The software was installed from stacks of flexible floppy disks.
Read moreBack in the days of DOS, software developers couldn't count much on fancy tools. There were no graphical interfaces, and everything was purely text-based. I remember using brief as an editor for my C source files (C++ didn't exist yet), and compiling the code from the command line with the…
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Read moreMicrosoft Azure makes it incredibly easy to get a basic API/microservice up and running quickly! If you are unfamiliar with building serverless architecture in the Microsoft ecosystem, using Azure Functions has become a quick way to get back-end code up and running that is easy to understand and usable for…
Read moreCosmos DB is a planet-scale database capable of holding billions of records ("documents" using Cosmos jargon) without significant detriment to performance. In this article, you will learn how to use Azure Cosmos DB - a key-value store solution - your ASP.NET app instead of a relational database.
Read moreNothing ruins your weekend quite as wholly as getting paged at 2 am on Saturday to tell you that there's been a data breach at your company. In this post, I'm going to talk about how you can reduce the risk of that happening by keeping secrets out of your…
Read moreAs a C# developer, I became interested in how using a serverless function could complement existing projects I had done in ASP.NET 4.x. Enhancing ecosystems by using it for new requirements - without starting over from scratch - really had appeal. AWS Lambda came along first, with Azure Functions emerging…
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Read moreOne of the scariest features of Visual Studio is without a doubt right-click to publish. There are very few instances in which you'd actually want to make use of this "feature" and so many more in which it's a terrible idea. In this post I'll walk you through the right…
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