PPS To deploy a pair of Azure SQL Managed Instances (MI) in an auto-failover group, you must deploy the primary and secondary instances in different Azure regions. While technically you can choose any two regions, the standard best practice is to use Azure Paired Regions (e.g., East US and West US). Failover Groups Overview & Best … Read more
Welcome back to Cloud Nerchuko! As data engineers and cloud architects, we are constantly making critical decisions about where our data lives. When migrating heavy workloads or building cloud-native applications from scratch, traditional relational databases don’t always cut it for massive scale. Enter the fully managed NoSQL heavyweights: AWS DynamoDB and Azure Cosmos DB. Both … Read more
If you thought the “Agentic Leap” was just a trend, this week proved it is now the foundation of the global economy. Between Nvidia’s record-shattering earnings and a high-stakes geopolitical battle over AI safety, developers are waking up to a completely different industry than they saw last Monday. The Trillion-Dollar Pivot: OpenAI’s Blockbuster Funding On … Read more
If 2025 was about integrating AI into our editors, February 2026 is officially the week AI took over the lifecycle. We’ve seen a massive “drop” of models and tools this week that move us away from simple code completion and into the era of Frontier Agents. 1. The Model War: Claude Opus 4.6 vs. GPT-5.3 … Read more
Choosing between a Single Database and an Elastic Pool in Azure SQL is one of the most consequential decisions an architect can make. It isn’t just a technical configuration; it is a financial strategy. If you choose incorrectly, you either end up with a performance hit or a massive monthly bill for resources that are … Read more
If January was about AI hype, the second week of February 2026 is about AI execution. From GitHub’s major shift in how AI agents communicate with the cloud to Microsoft’s deep-seated AI unit testing, the tools we use just got a lot more autonomous. In the world of Cloud and AI, a week feels like … Read more
In this blogpost, you will understand about how to insert data into Cosmos DB NoSQL API using Transaction Batch API with Python language. I got the JSON data which has only one row per partition in the Nike Discounts file. Please experiment the batch API by changing the distribution of the JSON records. (Ex. Put … Read more
In this blogpost, you will understand about the pre-requisites to create a failover group successfully in Azure SQL Managed Instance. If you are designing a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy for Azure SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI), you have likely settled on Auto-Failover Groups as your solution. It’s the gold standard: it gives you a read-write … Read more
In this blogpost, we will understand about how to insert data asynchronously into Cosmos DB No SQL API with Python. Pre-requisites: Please refer previous article on Insert data synchronously into Cosmos DB NoSQL API with Python to understand synchronous data insertion to Cosmos DB NoSQL API using python code. Results: Insertion of 1,000 JSON records … Read more
In this blogpost, you will learn about inserting data synchronously into Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API with Python code. Pre-requisites: Results: Insertion of 1,000 JSON records completed in 4:33 minutes. Note: You can setup your local environment using any Python supported IDE such as VS Code. I don’t want to go through VS Code and … Read more