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Azure Unit Economics for Crafting a Financially Sound Strategy

Embarking on a journey through the cloud landscape, Azure Unit Economics is a compass, guiding through the intricacies of financial optimization in the realm of Microsoft Azure. This blog post aims to clarify the complexity of Azure Unit Economics, underscoring its critical role in optimizing resource allocation and ensuring cost-effectiveness within the realm of cloud computing.

Azure VM Autoscaling to enhance performance and cost efficiency

Azure VM Autoscaling is a feature provided by Microsoft Azure that allows to automatically adjust the number of Virtual Machines (VMs) in a specific scale set based on predefined criteria such as load, performance metrics, or a schedule. This post delves into the significance of autoscaling within Azure VMs, spotlighting its role in cost optimization, performance enhancement, and improved availability.

Does Step Function's new TestState API make end-to-end tests obsolete?

Step Function added support for testing individual states . Which lets you execute individual states with the following: And returns the following: With the TestState API, you can thoroughly test every state and achieve close to 100% coverage of a state machine. So, does this eliminate the need for Step Functions Local ? Can we do away with end-to-end tests as well? If not, where should this new API fit into your workflow, and how should you use it?

Azure App Service Pricing (2024)

Azure App Services, part of Microsoft Azure’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings, simplifies web application and API development, deployment, and scalability without managing underlying infrastructure complexities. Supporting various programming languages and frameworks, its versatility suits diverse applications. Understanding Azure App Services pricing is crucial for effective cost management and resource optimization.

Receive zipped messages (or files) in BizTalk Server Solutions

Welcome again to another BizTalk Server to Azure Integration Services blog post. In my previous blog post, I discussed how to send zipped messages or files. Today, we will discuss the same topic but in the opposite direction, which is also a classic requirement in legacy BizTalk Server solutions: How do you receive zipped messages (files)?

Choosing the Right Observability Tools for Developers

This is the third and final blog post in a series about shifting Observability left. If you have not yet read the first two, you can find the first post here and the second post here. Observability is fundamental to modern software development, enabling developers to gain deep insights into their application’s behavior and performance.

BizTalk Server to Azure Integration Services: Send zipped messages (or files)

Welcome again to another BizTalk Server to Azure Integration Services blog post. In my previous blog post, I discussed how you can migrate one-way BizTalk Server routing solutions. Today, we will address another classic requirement in legacy BizTalk Server solutions.

Top 5 Azure Monitoring tools in 2024

Many organizations migrate their workloads to the cloud or begin leveraging what the cloud offers. However, to keep their businesses up and running during this process, organizations still require integrating their systems in the cloud, like Dynamics365, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, with Azure Integration Services (AIS) and potentially on-premises. One crucial aspect of such integrations is keeping them healthy and available, which requires monitoring and diagnostics.

An Ultimate guide on Azure FinOps to steer your cloud spending in the right direction

When dealing with some of the large enterprise migrations to the public cloud a few years ago, it was immediately clear that a huge process gap in the finance operations of these companies was not only making the finance controller miserable but also challenging the cloud teams as to their autonomy and in general, ability to deliver quickly on the flexibility and speed that the cloud promised.

6 Azure FinOps Principles to ensure financial accountability

FinOps, short for Financial Operations, is not just a term but a transformative approach that combines finance, operations, and engineering teams. At its core, it empowers organizations to take control of their cloud spending, optimizing resources while aligning seamlessly with business goals.