Category: Azure

Azure Cosmos DB Indexing Experiments

Azure Cosmos DB’s pricing by “Request Units” (or RUs) effectively means that the more you can optimize your data structures and your queries, the more money you can save.  While this is also true for databases like SQL Server, the...

Working with Azure Form Recognizer Part 2

In part 1, we took a look at how the new Azure Form Recognizer (Preview) service can be used to extract key-value pairs from forms in image and PDF formats using custom trained machine learning models. In part 2, we...

Azure Functions, SignalR, and Authorization

If you are using SignalR in Azure Functions with Users and Groups, there’s quite a gap in the available documentation online.  With this post, I’m hoping to help you get your Functions + SignalR working with Users and Groups. Users...

.NET Core MVC on Azure Container and Registry Service

I’ve recently been playing around with .NET Core MVC and trying to get it running on Azure Container Service (ACS). Why .NET Core?  Because you’ll be able to run those containers on Linux environments, which will generally be lower cost....