Tuesday, May 14, 2019
In Craig Kerstiens‘s latest blog post, “A health check playbook for your Postgres database” he emphasizes the need for periodic checks for your Postgres databases to ensure it’s healthy and performing well.
Monday, April 15, 2019
Grafana is one of the popular and leading open source tools for visualizing time series metrics.
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
A few months ago, we released a blog post that provided guidance on how to deploy Apache Airflow on Azure. The template in the blog provided a good quick start solution for anyone looking to quickly run and deploy Apache Airflow on Azure in sequential executor mode for testing and proof of concept study.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
This blog is a continuation of a series of blog posts to share best practices for improving performance and scale when using Azure Database for PostgreSQL service. In this post, we will focus on the benefits of using connection pooling and share our recommendations to improve connection resiliency, performance, and scalability of applications running on Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Monday, December 10, 2018
Apache Airflow is an open source platform used to author, schedule, and monitor workflows. Airflow overcomes some of the limitations of the cron utility by providing an extensible framework that includes operators, programmable interface to author jobs, scalable distributed architecture, and rich tracking and monitoring capabilities.
Monday, November 19, 2018
Most modern applications are built using events whether it is reacting to changes coming from IoT devices, responding to a new listing in a marketplace solution, or initiating business processes from customer requests.
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
We are extremely excited to announce that the plv8 extension for PostgreSQL is now enabled in all generally available regions of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL service. The plv8 extension was one of the highly requested UserVoice asks from our growing customer base and the PostgreSQL community.
Thursday, November 1, 2018
The Azure Database for MySQL REST API enables DevOps engineers to automate and integrate provisioning, while configuring and operating managed MySQL servers and databases in Azure. The API allows the creation, enumeration, management, and deletion of MySQL servers and databases on the Azure Database for MySQL service.