Azure Stack for disconnected environments

By Dustin Ward

Azure Stack for disconnected environments. (Oil and Gas)  Azure Stack is a truly exciting and powerful service that unlocks so many possibilities. Azure Stack allows organization to bring core and advanced cloud services to the edge and disconnected environments, whether it’s a field office, vehicle, ship, or aircraft. What is Azure Stack?  Microsoft Azure Stack is…

Autoscaling Best Practices

By Dustin Ward

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…

Scaling throughput in Azure Cosmos DB

By Dustin Ward

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…