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Architecting multitenant solutions on Azure | This week on Azure Friday

on April 22, 2022

In this episode of Azure Friday, John Downs joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how to design, architect, and build multitenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions on Azure. If you’re building a SaaS product or another multitenant service, there’s a lot to consider when you want to ensure high performance, tenant isolation, and managing deployments. They walk through some example SaaS architectures and see how Microsoft provides guidance to help you to build a multitenant solution on top of Azure.

Chapters

  • 00:00 – Introduction
  • 00:23 – Multitenancy in the cloud
  • 06:28 – Multitenancy guidance
  • 07:00 – Design considerations
  • 16:09 – Architectural approaches
  • 18:07 – Service-specific guidance
  • 20:28 – Wrap-up

Source: Azure Friday

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Architecting multitenant solutions on Azure

on April 11, 2022

John Downs, Paolo Salvatori, and Paul Burpo have created a great video on architecting multitenant solutions on Azure. Multitenant architectures bring along some unique challenges and opportunities that they go into and provide guidance on how to do this in Azure and what to do vs avoid.

This video is aimed at developers and architects who are building multitenant or SaaS applications, including startups and ISVs.

Enjoy!

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Meet your Cloud Developer Advocates

on July 27, 2018

What is a Cloud Developer Advocate? Their a global group of passionate developers that advocate to help solve problems with the cloud. Jeremy Likness wrote up a great post on what is a Cloud Developer Advocate that is great to read and he himself is a Cloud Developer Advocate. These folks are here to help and support you, so don’t be shy and reach out and connect with them. I’ve learned so much from them and have had the pleasure to meet and speak in person at a few events like the Microsoft Tech Summit, Microsoft Build and the Global Azure Summit.

To see a list of the current Cloud Developer Advocates and how you can to reach out and connect with them, please head over to the Cloud Developer Advocates page.

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Azure Advocates on Twitter

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Including Data in a SQL Server Database Project

on September 16, 2013

The other day I found myself looking at how I can include reference data in a new database as part of my SQL Server Database Project. Typically for my existing databases, I’ve just create post-deployment scripts to add/update/delete reference data as needed with each release. However with my new database, I have a number of tables and rows in each that I’ll need to deploy the first time.

The first option that comes to mind would be that I can do this as per usual and create a v1.0 script to populate the data, but I thought there should be a better way to maintain and deploy this data. What if it ever changes and I need it updated? I’ll then have to script specific post-deployment scripts. Not ideal.

I did a little searching and came across this old post on the SQL Server Data Tools Team Blog for Including Data in SQL Server Database Projects. This seems like a great option, but I already see there are a number of people complaining that this isn’t good enough and I would agree. I also have the added annoyance that I’m still stuck using SQL Server 2005, so the MERGE option isn’t even an option for me.

Further research shows another post on how to Mimic MERGE with the OUTPUT statement in SQL Server 2005. This looks like it will work for SQL Server 2005, but makes things more complex in my opinion. I really just want to declare in my database project the values the table should have on deployment and then let the build and deployment process determine what needs to be done.

I think for now I’ll stick with my first option and create an initial v1.0 post-deployment script. I’ll then take a look at what comes in Visual Studio 2013 later this year and if there are new options for addressing this issue.

We are moving to SQL Server 2012 by year end, so I can at least migrate to doing the MERGE approach at that time if there is nothing else available.

I hope this helps others in the same situation.

Enjoy!