scalability Easy scaling with Cosmos DB for large loads Working with a customer we need to load a batch of 40-50K documents to Cosmos DB. We could let this pass, but it will result in quite a few HTTP
Azure Unit testing Redis Lua scripts With great power comes great responsibility. The power of Lua scripting with Redis and what you can achieve using data structures beyond a key/value store is amazing. Starting out is quick and easy, and with some VIM tricks you can easily create an
BlackFriday Isolating failures - deliver what you can If some of your functionality fails, should it take your website down? Let's say you have a frontpage of a webshop displaying promoted items, a campaign and a list of the most popular items. If you fail fetching the popular items, or have some
Cache Single digit response times Single digit response times are fully possible. And I think we should try to get there, it may not always be possible but that's no reason not to explore our options. A fast site will feel more responsive, and using less resources means that
BlackFriday Patterns and Practices for Cloud development Earlier this month, the developer team at Microsoft Norway managed to hijack Masashi Narumoto and Christopher Bennage from the Patterns and Practices team while they were in the UK. The short stop in Oslo was highly appreciated with a packed theater. Now, we might
BlackFriday Black Friday failure Black Friday gained traction here in Norway the last years, and this year was bigger than ever. As Cyber Monday is still very small, most online stores run their offerings on Friday as well. This lead to what can best be called a nationwide
