Devops is many different things to many different people, but nearly all practitioners agree that infrastructure as code is a critical part. So rather then use the Azure portal UI to create our desired resources we are going to script it in code. We will have confidence that we can create, destroy and eventually scale resources as needed. In this post we will create a Azure static using terraform, step by step. ...

The CosmosDB SQL is very flexible in returning objects and view projections, but it cannot Update documents via its SQL dialect.

The CosmosDB SQL API is very flexible in returning objects and view projections, but it cannot merge documents via its SQL dialect.

CosmosDB Stored Procedures Why stored procedures? Stored Procedures (sprocs) are functions that run on the server-side of a database. In particular, we will be talking about sprocs in CosmosDB. The main reasons for using CosmosDB Sprocs are atomic transactions and performance. All database operations completed in a single sproc call will be atomic. Since the Sproc runs on the server the network latency for loading and saving documents will be considerably less than running the same operations from a remote server or laptop. ...

My father was featured on Hoda’s Bucket list segment on the Today show. My dad never really wanted to talk about his past in public, but recently he met one of the soldiers from the US 30th Infantry who rescued him. With the passing of the last of the group who rescued him, he know wants to ensure his story is told. The today show segment didn’t go into detail of his rescue, but men like Matthew Rozell and Frank Towers have documented it on Teaching History Matters ...