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A bad timeout and retry policy can break a distributed systems architecture, but is relatively easy to fix. Don't use the same default timeout settings across your distributed system.

In this story, I will walk through end to end Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network) deployment steps including provisioning of CDN profile, CDN endpoints, blob storages,custom domains, hosted zones and importing my own CA signed certificates and finally applying this certificate to my CDN profile to make it secure.

At the end of 2018, Azure added the ability to host static websites from Azure Blob Storage. This becomes a fairly cheap way to host, since you only pay for storage (very cheap) and for network usage (also cheap). This seems like a great option for me when I recently converted a site previously running Wordpress inside an Azure Application Service. I converted the site to a SPA and wanted to host it, using a custom domain, via this new feature.

The native support to JSON offered by Azure SQL will also help a lot again. In addition to that, the Micro-ORM Dapper will make the interaction with database a breeze, and the new System.Text.Json will take care of manipulating that developer-friendly format. Sounds too good and easy to be true? Well, let's prove it!

In this article I am going to discuss about one way we use to deal with large volumes of data upload, I would like to note that as always in IT there’s no “best way” or “right way”, each problem has multiple solutions, the one described in this article is just one of many.

Discover the deliberate design decisions that have made Kafka the performance powerhouse it is today.

With the introduction of Event Grid, Microsoft Azure now offers an even greater choice of messaging infrastructure options. The expanded messaging service fleet consists of the Service Bus message broker, the Event Hubs streaming platform, and the new Event Grid event distribution service.

There's an important distinction to note between services that deliver an event and services that deliver a message. Azure offers three services that assist with delivering event messages throughout a solution. These services are: Event Grid Event Hubs Service Bus

ASP.NET Core Kubernetes tutorial will be covered in this blog post, as a follow-up to ASP.NET Core Microservices: Getting Started.