Updating Cosmos DB document schema
This post explains the pain-points of updating schema in NoSQL and how you can update Cosmos DB schema using custom JSON serializer.
Tag: Azure
Custom JSON serialization with Azure Cosmos DB SDK
This post explains how you can use custom JSON serializer settings with Cosmos DB using Newtonsoft JSON and System.Text.Json.
Loading certificate in Azure App Service for Linux
In this post, I have explained how you can load a certificate through code in Azure App Service for Linu
Running an ASP.NET Core application against multiple DB providers – Part 2
Different approaches we considered to set up integration tests when running against multiple DB providers in ASP.NET Core
Running an ASP.NET Core application against multiple DB providers – Part 1
In my previous post, I had talked about how we to ported an existing repository code from Azure SQL to Amazon Aurora. This is a two-series post where I will throw a little bit more light on the intention behind it and what we were trying to achieve. Background We had a small ASP.NET Core solution
Migrating Azure SQL Database to Amazon Aurora
I recently got an opportunity to work on migrating Azure SQL Database to Amazon Aurora. Well, it was not technically a migration since our platform needed to support both Azure SQL and Amazon Aurora. The motivation behind this is perhaps a separate post in itself. For those who have not worked on either of these
Azure SQL to Cosmos DB – Lesson Learnt
We are currently working on a greenfield project which involves building several microservices on Azure. One of our primary services had Azure SQL as its data source originally. But, midway during the development, we decided to switch Cosmos DB instead. One of the main motivations for this switch was that it was too hard to
Sending message from Azure Functions to NServiceBus receiver
NServiceBus is one of the most widely used service bus in .NET World. It offers features like high performance, scalability, automatic retries, auditing and so-on. NService has an out-of-box support for MSMQ, RabbitMQ, Sql Server, Azure Service Bus, etc. Our organization uses NServiceBus for messaging and workflow. We use Azure Service Bus in test/production and
Microsoft Bot Framework – Part 2: Publish Bot Service to Azure
This blog post is Part 2 of how to create a chat bot with Microsoft Bot Framework which can answer FAQs on your website. This is in continuation to my previous post where I explained how to create a QnA service using Microsoft QnA service maker. You can read Part 1 of my post here.
Microsoft Bot Framework – Part 1: QnA Service
Recently, we had a hack day in our organization. As part of Hack day, we were given one day to work on our hobby project and demonstrate it to everyone. I took that opportunity to learn more about Microsoft Bot Framework and demonstrate its capability. 6 hours later, I was ready with a prototype of a
Azure Load Balancer on Virtual Machines
Recently, I needed to scale out my web app hosted on Virtual Machine. After a few hiccups and learnings, I was finally able to Load Balance my web app hosted over multiple Virtual Machines. I have tried to document the steps in the form of a blog here. To scale out I used following configuration: Two
Publish Web App to Azure Virtual Machine – Part 2
This post is Part 2 of the series – Publish web app to Azure VM. In this post I will take the application, we created in Part 1 and publish it on Azure Virtual Machine through Visual Studio Team Services.
Publish Web App to Azure Virtual Machine – Part 1
Publish Web App to Azure Virtual Machine Part 1