Azure Web Apps by default enable so-called sticky sessions when subsequent requests that are made within an established session get processed by the same instance of an app that served the very first request of the session. Web Apps rely on the IIS extension called Application Request Routing... »
One of the commonly expected features of mobile apps is an ability to receive push notifications, that is, notifications that do not require the apps to be up and running and having an established connection with their backend. »
You have an application application that is deployed to an Azure Web App running in Basic App Service hosting plan. You have a couple of web jobs scheduled with cron expressions. One day you noticed that these schedules never fired... »
Azure Web Apps provide a continuous deployment feature that allows you to quickly set up a continuous build and deployment process from your code repository. It implements a pull model when your repository is cloned to your web app, changes are pulled and the application is built when... »
Application Insights uses several contextual properties for event correlation. The most generic one is Operation Id that allows us to analyze a series of events and traces as part of a single operation. Depending on the application type there can be additional correlation properties. »
Besides rich telemetry that is collected by Application Insights modules transparently for your applications you also want to make your custom tracing and logging messages part of the overall correlated diagnostics data so you could have even better insights into what's happening... »
It’s all about correlation and digestion of the captured data. An exception or a database call or a custom event they all happen as part of some sort of an operation. It can be a web request processing or a user performing... »
Last time we had a look at provisioning Azure Search service with Azure Resource Manager and PowerShell. The next step is to set up an index (or indexes) and decide how we are going to populate it. We should also index existing data for the first time once the index has been created. »
Azure Search Management API is built on top of Azure Resource Manager which is a new way of managing resource in Azure that you probably hear about more and more these days. The idea behind it is that instead of managing individual resources you start thinking in terms of your applications... »
Azure Search is a search as a service offering that gives developers total control over indexing and searching of their content. It’s the control that sets Azure Search apart from public search offerings such as Google Custom Search. »