Category: Azure
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Podcasts – Mine and Others
Let me be honest – I hadn’t listened to podcasts in a while, so was pleasantly surprised when I was recording a podcast with Mario Cardinal and Guy Barrette on CosmosDB and, during the initial chitchat, Mario talks about a great podcast he started listening to called After On. Here…
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Azure AppService to FTP (not in Azure)
Oy, I just spent a crazy week to learn that : It is impossible for an AppService application to connect to a FTP server on the internet (in passive mode). The reason is that each Azure App-Service is assigned a pool of IP addresses for outgoing traffic and Azure is…
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SQL and extensibility
Having a schema in SQL defeats extensibility – and there is no way i am having columns named “ExtensibleColumn1, ExtensibleColumn2″… I have come to embrace storing JSON directly in the database, quite easy actually as JSON is simply text… The bigger problem though was how to extract specific data from…
