The first thing in building any E-commerce app is creating the underlying database to support it. As much as possible, you should try to build your application code and business logic into your ...

Welcome to the first of a two-part series. In this first part, I'll talk about the physical infrastructure that Microsoft uses to ensure availability and provide a high degree of uptime for the Azure ...

Whether it is at the core, edge, or access platform, network routers have one basic function: packet forwarding. Edge routers, however, have the need to perform additional processing and deeper ...

Sets of database rows are brought into memory as part of SQL select or stored procedure operations. Some (but not all) of the NoSQL databases are designed to exist in memory for speed and can be ...

In “The end of SQL and relational databases? (part 1 of 3)” I covered some background on the SQL language and relational databases, the current and future for relational databases, the rise of ...