How I Used $16 In Azure Resources To Build Maine’s Only Real-Time State And Local Elections Results
Using $15.58 in Microsoft Azure Services, I built a real-time election results system that served 1.3 million successful requests in 24 hours.
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Serving Static Content From Azure Storage: Content Delivery Network Setup
Creating an Azure CDN, preparing Azure Storage block blobs for it, and managing your Storage-based CDN endpoint.
Serving Static Content From Azure Storage: Content Delivery Networks Overview
An overview of the content delivery network options available for optimal serving of Azure Storage blobs.
Serving Static Files From Azure Storage: CORS Rules
If you're going to call Azure Storage blobs from AJAX, you may need to set Cross Origin Resource Sharing rules on your account.
Using Azure Storage To Serve Static Web Content: An Overview
Azure Storage blobs are a very affordable means of serving static content via HTTP, especially when combined with Azure CDN.
Blue Monday: Azure SQL Database Now Supports Always Encrypted
Always Encrypted data for Azure SQL Database is in general release; point-in-time restore for Standard tier SQL Database extended to 35 days ...
Introducing: Blue Monday, A Series On Recent Azure Service Updates
Azure Mobile Services shutting down; PHP 7 comes to App Service; two new datacenters; Akamai-backed CDN ...
‘Faster WordPress Templates With The Transients API’ Slides, Code Now Available
Slides and demo code from my WordCamp Maine 2016 talk, "Faster WordPress Templates With The Transients API."
Setting Up Scalable WordPress Installs On Microsoft Azure
A walkthrough on setting up Scalable WordPress installs on Microsoft Azure -- even though other cloud providers are a better choice.
How To: Use Transients To Speed Up WordPress Templates
WordPress transients can save complicated WP Query objects, and "selectively cache" parts of a page, increasing page speed and improving site performance.