Azure

Robert Sheldon in Azure

The Azure SQL portfolio

Microsoft provides many ways to run SQL Server in Azure, but which do you choose? In this article, Robert Sheldon...

01 September 2021 14 min read

Performance

Samir Behara in Performance

Designing Highly Scalable Database Architectures

While architecting cloud native applications, you need to ensure that your system is highly available, performant, scalable, fault tolerant, and...

09 April 2019 13 min read

Database Administration

Seth Delconte in Database Administration

Recover Data in SQL Server AWS RDS with the Help of BACPAC

With Amazon RDS, it’s easy to have a SQL Server running in minutes. There are some limitations, though. Seth Delconte...

22 March 2018 15 min read

Christos Matskas

An Introduction to Azure Event Grid

Azure Event Grid (in preview) is a new event routing service that works with Azure Logic Apps and Azure Functions....

27 December 2017 14 min read

Platform as a Service

Christos Matskas in Platform as a Service

An introduction to Azure Web Apps on Linux

Azure App Service has got more versatile because it can now run Linux. Not only can you run Web App...

04 October 2017 8 min read

Azure

Christos Matskas in Azure

Serverless Architecture with Azure

Azure provides an ideal platform for hosting microservices because it offers a number of managed services that allow developers to...

24 February 2017 7 min read

Platform as a Service

Robert Sheldon in Platform as a Service

Windows Containers and Docker

Windows Server 2016 features support for containers. These are not Linux-based, but containers that run on Windows and run Windows...

04 July 2016 11 min read

Robert Sheldon

Application Containers For Cloud Computing

Containers promise to make applications more portable and efficient. The technology, originally based on Linux's cgroups, provides a way of...

11 February 2015 12 min read

Robert Sheldon

Data as a Service: The Next "As a Service" Wave?

There was a time that data seemed part of the application that maintained and used it. Now, there is increasing...

19 November 2014 15 min read

Robert Sheldon

The Community Cloud

The 'Community Cloud' sounds, on first impression, like marketing-speak for some untried novelty, but in fact it is already around,...

27 August 2014 15 min read

A Cloudy Place

SQL Monitor Hosted: keeping an eye on your servers from the cloud

Simple-Talk's Melanie Townsend sits down with Red Gate's Matt Lee to talk about their newest adventure in cloud-based monitoring for...

12 September 2012 9 min read

Ming Lee

What do you mean the cloud isn't free?

Because cloud services are so easy to deploy and scale-up, it is easy to start racking up unexpectedly high bills....

04 May 2012 9 min read

A Cloudy Place

Engine Testing Using EC2

Jeff Foster, a Software Engineer on Red Gate's SQL Source Control product, has recently begun investigating the use of Amazon's...

12 April 2012 6 min read

Wely Lau

Comparing IAAS and PAAS: A Developer’s Perspective

In the Cloud, services come in the form of Software (SaaS), Infrastructure (IaaS) and platform (PaaS). when moving a service...

13 January 2012 6 min read

Shameer

PHPFog and Pagoda Box: A Look at PHP Platforms

Cloud platforms such as Heroku, AppEngine, PHPFog and Pagoda Box are ideal for companies who just want to focus on...

14 December 2011 6 min read