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Cloud-Watch - Cosmos DB

Cloud-Watch - Cosmos DB

Cosmos DB was launched on Azure in May 2017 as a global scale multi-model database service for managing data at epic sacle. Its a schemaless, horizontally scaleable, NoSQL database.

Since launch it has grown capabilities to support many interfaces compatible with other NoSQL DBs. Lets take a deeper look.

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Cloud-Watch - Azure Databases

Cloud-Watch - Azure Databases

Within the Azure platform it is possible to run almost any database platform available. But what if you want to embrace serverless on the Azure platform, and let Microsoft run everything for you. Lets explore the options that are available.

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Cloud-Watch - Serverless

Cloud-Watch - Serverless

Following on from the post about all the vendors in the cloud space, this time I thought I should focus on serverless. Generally all cloud vendors support 2 different options, specifically Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). Serverless is essentially the new PaaS. So what is serverless?

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Cloud-Watch - Cloud Vendors

Cloud-Watch - Cloud Vendors

For the first in the Cloud Watch series, I thought i would share a quick summary of the major cloud vendors at the moment, and highlight their key technologies and strengths. This is something I work through with each of my clients when I onboard then, to ensure we are building our platforms in the right place. There is no default answer here, every business needs to be evaluated based on its requirements.

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What is Cloud-Watch

What is Cloud-Watch

In order to bring a little more regularity to my blogging, and structure things a bit more I decided to introduce 3 new areas to my blog, Client Watch, Cloud Watch and Technology Watch.

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