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Tag: Azure Architecture

Teradata Tape Migration to Azure

Original Post Read More 1.      What is Tape Backup?   In the on-premises world, tape storage is a system in which magnetic tape is used as a recording media to store data. With rapidly growing data volumes, tape storage is the most suitable system for data storage requiring large capacity

Armchair Architects: Architectural Erosion and Technical Debt

Original Post Read More Welcome back to Armchair Architects as part of the Azure Enablement Show. Today we’re going to talk about this architecture erosion and we’re also going to talk about technical debt with our Armchair Architects, Uli Homann and Eric Charran.   What does architecture erosion mean?  

Optimize Azure Kubernetes Service Node Cost by Combining OnDemand And Spot VMs

Original Post Read More While it’s possible to run the Kubernetes nodes either in on-demand or spot node pools separately, we can optimize the application cost without compromising the reliability by placing the pods unevenly on spot and OnDemand VMs using the topology spread constraints. With baseline amount of pods deployed in OnDemand node

Designing and Implementing Modern Data Architecture on Azure Cloud.

Original Post Read More I just completed work on the digital transformation, design, development, and delivery of a cloud native data solution for one of the biggest professional sports organizations in north America.   In this post, I want to share some thoughts on the selected architecture and why we

Armchair Architects: Is Big Data Turning into Dark Data?

Original Post Read More Welcome back to another episode of Armchair Architects as part of the Azure Enablement show. Today we’re going to talk about data, but not just any data. We’re going to talk about this phenomenon called dark data and what do you do about it. I hadn’t

Armchair Architects: Architecture and Ambiguity

Original Post Read More Welcome back to another episode of Armchair Architects as part of the Azure Enablement show. So today we’re going to talk about something a little theoretical. We’re going to talk about the relationship between architecture and ambiguity. What do you do when the specs aren’t entirely

Stream Data to Your Data Lake Using Azure Data Explorer

Original Post Read More Summary Microsoft Azure Data Explorer is a great resource to ingest and process streaming data. Azure Data Lake Storage is a great resource for storing large amounts of data. The end-to-end conceptual architecture contained in the GitHub Repository accompanying this blog focuses on deploying an environment that plays to the