Azure Traffic Manager Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer service, which enables you to distribute traffic to services across global Azure regions while providing high availability and quick responsiveness. In this article, I present what are the benefits of this service and how to use it. Azure…

Azure Container Apps (ACA) is a fully managed platform that enables you to run containerized applications leveraging the power of Kubernetes orchestration while abstracting away the complexities of cluster management, simplifying the deployment and management of containerized apps. In this article, I present the benefits of this service and how…

Deployment Slots is a feature offered by Azure App Services, which allows you to create separate environments for deploying and testing your Web App, before making the app available to all the end users. Each Deployment Slot represents a separate instance of your app, which can be used for various…

Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise message broker with message queues and publish-subscribe topics (in a namespace — a container for queues and topics), and it is used to decouple applications and services from each other, allowing the use of message exchange with asynchronous communication. In this article…

Azure Functions is a serverless solution that allows you to write small pieces of code that run in the cloud, without worrying about underlying infrastructure and scaling. …

Azure App Services is a fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS), and it is used for hosting Web Applications and REST APIs. In this article, I present the Monitoring, Logging and Autoscaling features of an App Service with a .NET 7 WEB API project. What is an App Service

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud platform that offers a lot of services that allow you to build, deploy and manage applications and services. In this article I present an overview of some of the main Azure Services, explaining what each of these services is and what they can be used for. …

The MERGE statement can be used to insert, update or delete data using the same transaction and avoid the need to create separate scripts for each operation. In this article, I present how to use the MERGE statement in a stored procedure to merge a single record and how to…

Table-Valued Parameters are like parameter arrays that can be used to send multiple rows of data to a Transact-SQL statement, or a routine such as a stored procedure or a function, avoiding needing to create a temporary table or using many parameters. In this article, I present how to use…