by Chad Michel | Sep 20, 2017 | Software Engineering
Why Azure Functions? Azure Functions provide a quick spot to drop some simple service code. Think of them as services without the hassle. No VS projects. No builds. Just go. Azure Functions are not a great technology for everything, but for services that contain...
by Chad Michel | Sep 13, 2017 | Software Engineering
/* This post is part of a series about what we cover in our Software Design and Development Clinics, a 1-week series of classes where we dive into various aspects of software design and development principles. Legacy application migration is a core focus of this...
by Chad Michel | Sep 7, 2017 | Software Engineering
We have gone through quite a bit of Azure Cosmos-related posts the last few weeks, but we have skipped over the concept of partition keys in almost of the queries we have covered. Ignoring the partition key is probably fine for these small data sets, but for real...
by Chad Michel | Aug 30, 2017 | Software Engineering
In my first post, we performed some really basic CRUD queries against Azure Cosmos DB. In my second post, we went a little deeper and refined our queries. In this post, we are going to be using SQL to query Cosmos. Yep, SQL. First, we will rewrite our count method....
by Chad Michel | Aug 24, 2017 | Software Engineering
Our first post covering Azure Cosmos DB was pretty basic. If you noticed, our READ query was always returning all results. So even if we wanted to find a single item, we had to return all of the items. That plan has obvious problems. If we look at the code below, we...
