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Learn a thing a day 👩‍🎓Daily tips on different aspects of #Azure👇 #Cloud #DevOps #Serverless #CloudNative #Microservices Not affiliated with Azure

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🌍 @AzureCosmosDB has 5️⃣ data consistency levels:

🐢 Strong
🚩 Bounded staleness
👨🏻‍💻 Session
#️⃣ Consistent Prefix
🚀 Eventual

All of them except Eventual, provide ordering guarantee. Eventual has the best performance, where Strong has the lowest throughput.

#serverless #Azure

[DevOps on Azure @AzureDevOps]

One of the most common uses for a work item is to create and track bugs. Here, @sstranger shows us how to use Logic Apps to create a workflow and work items for different 'bug tracking' scenarios. https://t.co/BHrnPo99U1

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🙌 Say goodbye to capacity monitoring and hello to #autoscale provisioned throughput and #serverless. Autoscale is now generally available & can be paired with free tier for extra savings. Serverless coming soon.

https://t.co/vYya3lYy0P

#AzureCosmosDB #MSBuild

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⛓ If you need to chain your @AzureFunctions in a stateful flow consider using Durable Functions. It's a really powerful tool that can save you lots of time! 🤓

#Azure #Serverless #functions

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🐧You can mount @Azure #Blob storage as a file system on your #Linux machine

Try 👉 https://t.co/TJoP8c8dEG

It's really useful if you have existing software that uses a filesystem as a storage and you want to migrate to Azure Storage without changing the app code

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🤓 Delta Lake is an open-source storage layer that brings reliability to data lakes. Delta Lake provides ACID transactions, scalable metadata handling, and unifies streaming and batch data processing.

https://t.co/jnjA2eSzwq

#Azure @databricks

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⏰ Do you want to trigger your #Azure function periodically like with good old CRON?
Simply add this to your function.json

#serverless

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@nileshgule Nice! Thanks for sharing!

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🔧 Do you need #Azure Key Vault with #AKS cluster?
Azure Key Vault provider for Secrets Store CSI driver allows you to get secret contents stored in Key Vault instance and use the Secrets Store CSI driver interface to mount them into #Kubernetes pods. 👇

https://t.co/Y53Qv7wPCT

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#Azure Event Grid allows you to easily build applications with #event-based architectures.
You can use filters to route specific events to different endpoints, multicast to multiple endpoints, and make sure your events are reliably delivered.

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⚡️ @AzureFunctions consumption plan pricing includes a monthly free grant of 1 million requests and 400,000 GB-s of resource consumption per month per subscription in pay-as-you-go pricing across all function apps in that subscription.

#Serverless

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🚀 #Azure Static Web Apps is a service that automatically builds and deploys full stack web apps

🔒 SSL & domains
🔑 Authentication
⚙️ Automated build/deploy w/ Github Actions
👀 Preview URLs for staging
🌍 Globally distributed
⚡️ #serverless APIs with @AzureFunctions

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🔎 With a reader role you can view resources of all types, except secrets. This role is perfect for providing auditing capabilities to your infrastructure!

#Azure #RBAC #security

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🤓 With @AzureCosmosDB you pay for the throughput you provision and the storage you consume on an hourly basis. The cost of all database operations is colled Request Units - RUs

#database #nosql #Serverless

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🔑 If you are migrating to #Azure and have some certificates or keys you need to keep on using, simply migrate them to Azure Key Vault. With minimal changes to your code you will have highly secure, centralized secrets store with builtin auditing and access management.

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🕵 By default all #Azure Storage Containers are private but you can enable anonymous access. You can change that in you Storage Account settings

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🤓 Remember that when you delete an AKS cluster, the #Azure Active Directory service principal used by the #AKS cluster is not removed.

#kubernetes

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📨 #Azure Service Bus offers the ability to peek a message without having to dequeue it, which can be useful when implementing a queue explorer/browser tool.

#serverless #servicebus

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@AzureFunctions consist of two elements:

📄 your code, which can be written in a language of your choice
🔧 function.json file which is basically a configuration of your function. In this file, you specify the function's trigger and bindings

#azure #serverless #functions

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@upsidedownwf @ravinwashere Well, a couple years ago it was not that obvious 😀 some might still remember how hard was it to make your website look the same on IE and Firefox. Good old times 🙃