Building Systems in the Cloud

Things change, and so does the cloud. New services are being added and integration between services is being improved, but services also become deprecated. We need to embrace change and design for it.

Azure Data Factory 2.0 - How is it different from Azure Logic Apps?

Azure Logic Apps & Azure Data Factory are both orchestrators, but how do they differ from each other? Well, combining both is the sweet spot.

Azure Data Factory 2.0 - Next Generation of Data Integration

Microsoft announced Azure Data Factory v2 at Ignite bringing that enables more data integration scenarios and brings SSIS into the cloud.

Microsoft IoT Central is now available in Public Preview!

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a business revolution enabled by technology and is no longer just for early adopters, it offers tremendous business opportunities.With Microsoft IoT Central, a new SaaS solution, Microsoft is helping to solve IoT challenges.

SQL Server 2016: MAX DOP at database level.

Very recently, I discovered a new feature in SQL Server 2016. It allows you to configure the Max Degree of Parallelism (MAXDOP) on a database level, instead of instance level. This is very important to take into account for BizTalk installations. The BizTalk MessageBox database performs at it best when MAXDOP is set to 1.

How to cluster the Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) Service on SQL Server 2016 Always On Availability Groups cluster in Azure

Starting with SQL Server 2016, SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups supports MSDTC for on-premises and using Azure VMs. As a result, the SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn feature is supported for BizTalk databases on-premises or in Azure IaaS scenarios.