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Azure Functions Pricing - 2024 Guide to Azure Functions Costs & Optimization

Azure Functions is a serverless computer Microsoft Azure service. Its goal is to enable developers to create scalable, cost-optimized, event-driven applications without the hassle of server management. However, like most Azure cloud-based offerings, the costs of Azure Functions can be muddied by the different pricing models and the factors that can increase (or decrease) your monthly bill. Our guide simplifies things so you can be confident your Azure spend is optimized down to the last dime.

Cross-Cloud Networking: VPC Networking

Cross-cloud networking is a common topic among Google Cloud customers as they deploy and manage workloads across multiple clouds. Watch along as Sri Nannapaneni, Customer Engineer at Google Cloud, discusses Google Cloud connectivity services and a VPC design pattern for cross-cloud and on premises communication.

Cross-Cloud Networking: DNS Design

Designing a robust DNS design to support seamless name resolution across distributed workloads is important. Watch along as Sri Nannapaneni, Customer Engineer at Google Cloud, discusses Cloud DNS concepts and reviews a design pattern that customers can leverage as part of their hybrid deployment.

How to prevent accidental load balancer deletions

The worst thing you could do after successfully deploying to a new environment is to accidentally delete critical infrastructure. Unfortunately, that happened to one Google Cloud customer when their private cloud subscription was accidentally deleted, resulting in nearly two weeks of downtime. This isn’t an isolated problem either: Microsoft Azure had a similar problem when a typo inadvertently deleted an entire SQL Server instance rather than a specific database.

Demystifying the cloud: Elasticity vs. scalability

Elasticity and scalability are essential aspects of cloud computing and crucial for optimizing resource management and ensuring seamless operations. However, despite their importance, these concepts are often confused. Understanding their distinct purposes and functionalities is essential for fully leveraging the power of cloud technology. This article explores what cloud elasticity and scalability are, their key differences, and why both matter for efficient cloud environments.

What Is Cloud Orchestration? The 15 Best Tools In 2024

Automation is something you hear a lot about in cloud computing. When done well, it helps save time and eliminates human error. Automation can also help you innovate faster because it frees up your IT talent to focus on innovation – rather than repetitive tasks. But did you know cloud orchestration could be the real reason for those benefits — and not really cloud automation?

Lessons learned after migrating Azure Functions to Isolated Functions on .NET 8

The In-process model of running Azure Functions is being retired in favor of the Isolated model in two years. A lot of components on elmah.io are running on Azure Functions. To ensure we are running on the most modern and supported platform (also in two years), we have spent quite some time migrating from In-process to Isolated functions. In this post, I'll share both a checklist to help you do the same as well as some of the lessons learned we had during the migration.

Handling LLM Hallucinations: Taking Your LLM Features From Prototype to Production

This is a vendor guest post authored by the team at Lytix. Lytix being discussed on this blog is not an endorsement by Taloflow or an approval by Taloflow of any of the content contained herein. Taloflow is not compensated for this vendor guest post in any way and presents this post for purely informational purposes and the benefit of site users.

Database Observability and Storage Insights

Storage monitoring involves discovering the estate, devices, and network interconnections. Key telemetry requirements include their states, performance metrics, and logs. As the complexity of the environment increases and storage reliability improves, the focus shifts. Understanding the layers above, such as file systems and databases, and their demand for storage services becomes crucial. This article delves into the detailed knowledge required to achieve effective observability.