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Choosing the Right Cloud Infrastructure for Your SaaS Start-up

As a solutions architect, I have been designing SaaS applications for years and I have seen start-ups struggle to find the right cloud infrastructure and improve their product offering. These experiences prompted me to write this article as a tool to help companies make a pragmatic fact and data-driven decision.

Ratnesh Singh Parihar
on Sep 06, 2022
Cloud

Developing a Cloud-Native Application on Microsoft Azure Using Open Source Technologies

Cloud native is a development approach that improves building, maintainability, scalability, and deployment of applications. My intention with this article is to explain, in a pragmatic way, how to build, deploy, run, and monitor a simple cloud-native application on Microsoft Azure using open-source technologies.

Andrea Grillo
on Jun 22, 2022
Cloud

Designing IoT Solutions with Microsoft Azure

In this article, we will learn how the IoT solutions can work with Microsoft Azure and what services are available to perform different operations across multiple domains. Furthermore, it covers a few case studies to gain hands-on experience on Azure IoT that are common and provide a good starting point for utilizing cloud-based IoT services.

Kush Mishra
on Mar 02, 2022
DevOps

Building an Effective Digital Platform: Adam Hansrod on the Benefits, Challenges, and Approach

A successful digital platform can improve time to market, increase revenue, reduce operational costs, and improve innovation. An effective platform is one that is differentiating, designed as a product, and is opinionated. InfoQ sat down with Adam Hansrod to discuss how organizations can structure themselves to create effective digital platforms.

Adam Hansrod Matt Campbell
on Mar 01, 2022
Cloud

An Introduction and Tutorial for Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, JSON-based database delivered as a ‘Platform as a Service’ (PaaS) in Microsoft Azure. Learn about the benefits and disadvantages of Azure Cosmos DB. Find out more about this database and discover how to interact with it using tools, SDKs, and APIs.

Phil Factor
on Feb 25, 2022
Architecture & Design

Leverage the Cloud to Help Consolidate On-Prem Systems

A cloud model can be used to architecturally validate the possibility of consolidating multiple application servers into a smaller number of physical resources that will ultimately remain on-prem.

Tony Perez
on Jul 23, 2021
Architecture & Design

Microsoft's Low-Code Strategy Paints a Target on UIPath and the Other RPA Companies

Microsoft is investing big in the low code space and has put together a collection of products that is hard for other companies to match, capped recently by the announcement of PowerFX. The target in their sights is the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) companies such as UIPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism who are closing big deals with big enterprises.

Doug Hudgeon
on Jun 01, 2021
Cloud

Evolution of Azure Synapse: Apache Spark 3.0, GPU Acceleration, Delta Lake, Dataverse Support

At Microsoft Build 2021, Azure Synapse has announced significant improvements for its Apache Spark pool, its performance, and data querying and integration capabilities. This article outlines the improvements and provides the context.

Lena Hall
on May 29, 2021
Cloud

Can We Trust the Cloud Not to Fail?

I will start with the theory behind failure detection, and then review a couple of real-world examples of how the mechanism works in a real cloud - on Azure. Even though this article includes real-world applications of failure detection within Azure, the same notions could also apply to GCP, AWS, or any other distributed system.

Lena Hall
on May 11, 2021
Cloud

The Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes

At QCon in March, Bilgin Ibryam, product manager at Red Hat, gave a talk on the evolution of distributed systems with Kubernetes. You might have an answer to that, and Ibryam has one too. At the end of the article, you will find out what he thinks the answer will be.

Bilgin Ibryam
on Mar 24, 2021
Development

InfoQ 2020 Recap, Editor Recommendations, and Best Content of the Year

As 2020 is coming to an end, we created this article listing some of the best posts published this year. This collection was hand-picked by nine InfoQ Editors recommending the greatest posts in their domain. It's a great piece to make sure you don't miss out on some of the InfoQ's best content.

Leandro Guimarães Arthur Casals Charles Humble Daniel Bryant Johan Janssen Manuel Pais Renato Losio Shane Hastie Steef-Jan Wiggers Thomas Betts
on Dec 28, 2020
Java

Azure + Spring Boot = Serverless - Q&A with Julien Dubois

Microsoft seems to prove over and over again its focus on cloud and the Java ecosystem is the new normal. Even though Java has been amongst the supported languages for Azure functions for some time now, Julien Dubois experimented with Spring Boot and Azure to see what this combination means for Azure serverless computing. InfoQ reached out to him to explore further his experience on this topic.

Olimpiu Pop Julien Dubois
on Sep 16, 2020