Autoscaling Best Practices – Unforunately several websites have succumb to the Black Friday shopping frenzy. Autoscaling takes advantage of the elasticity of cloud-hosted environments while easing management overhead. It reduces the need for an operator to continually monitor the performance of a system and make decisions about adding or removing resources. There are two main…
Did you know that a single fiber-optic cable at an oil well generates more than a terabyte of data every day? Oil well sensors collect performance, temperature, pressure, and equipment health data; drill ships and production facilities are instrumented with thousands more sensors, generating even more data. Azure IoT hub will not only collect all…
What is an RU and how are they consumed? RUs measure the cost of both read and write operations against your Cosmos container. Discover more about RUs and Scaling throughput in Azure Cosmos DB. In Azure Cosmos DB, provisioned throughput is represented as request units/second (RU/s, plural: RUs). RUs measure the cost of both read and…
One of my favorite features of #CosmosDB is the change feed. It listens to an Azure Cosmos DB collection for any changes. It then outputs the sorted list of documents that were changed in the order in which they were modified. @AzureCosmosDB #Azure
Use device-to-cloud telemetry data to understand the state of your devices and define message routes to other Azure services without writing any code. In cloud-to-device messages, reliably send commands and notifications to your connected devices and track message delivery with acknowledgement receipts. Device messages are sent in a durable way to accommodate intermittently connected devices.
This next Azure Cosmos DB + Azure Functions recipe will show you how to customize the ConnectionMode and Protocol used in the Azure Functions bindings and triggers.