TechNet Radio: Data in the Cloud (Part 5) – Process and Support Terabytes of Data on Azure

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In part 5 of our Data in the Cloud series, Dan Stolts welcomes Silvano Coriani to the show as they discuss cloud app design possibilities and how to support high volume applications in Azure. [3:40] How does processing large-scale OLTP workloads on Azure SQL Database with Elastic Scale work? What are the benefits? [6:32] How […]

In part 5 of our Data in the Cloud series, Dan Stolts welcomes Silvano Coriani to the show as they discuss cloud app design possibilities and how to support high volume applications in Azure.

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- [3:40] How does processing large-scale OLTP workloads on Azure SQL Database with Elastic Scale work? What are the benefits?

- [6:32] How can one manage big data base workloads with Azure SQL DB?

- [11:12] Let’s Dive into the technology a bit deeper…  What’s a shard, how is it used and by whom?

- [26:44] What does all this complexity mean to Developers DBAs and infrastructure Engineers?

- [32:36] Does this relate at all to other technologies like Azure Storage and DocumentDB?

- [35:08] How does our Elastic Scale compare to other cloud providers like Amazon?

- [38:38] Is this something startups might care about?

- [42:48] How can they leverage this technology?

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Dan Stolts

Founder and Chief AI Officer of Just In Time AI, with an IT career that began in 1988 -- nearly four decades of experience. Over a decade of that career went into building ITProGuru into a 250,000-uniques/mo IT-community resource, and he now applies the same teach-first approach to AI systems that run real businesses. Full profile →