Introduction: Cloud Spanner represents a breakthrough in database technology—the world’s first horizontally scalable, strongly consistent relational database that spans continents while maintaining ACID transactions. This comprehensive guide explores Spanner’s enterprise capabilities, from its TrueTime-based consistency model to multi-region configurations and automatic sharding. After architecting globally distributed systems across multiple database technologies, I’ve found Spanner uniquely […]
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Azure Synapse Analytics: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Unified Data Analytics
The modern enterprise data landscape demands more than traditional data warehousing or isolated analytics solutions. Organizations need unified platforms that can handle everything from batch ETL processing to real-time streaming analytics, from structured data warehousing to exploratory data science workloads. Azure Synapse Analytics represents Microsoft’s answer to this challenge—a comprehensive analytics service that brings together […]
Read more →Tips and Tricks – Implement Idempotent ETL with Merge Statements
Use MERGE (upsert) for safe, rerunnable data pipelines that handle duplicates gracefully.
Read more →Tips and Tricks – Implement Domain Events for Loose Coupling
Use domain events to decouple components and enable reactive architectures.
Read more →Tips and Tricks – Apply Strangler Fig Pattern for Legacy Migration
Gradually replace legacy systems by routing traffic to new implementations incrementally.
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