Hovhannes Avoyan

  In our previous articles, Introduction to SQL Server 2012 and Windows Azure Overview, we made references to Microsoft’s SQL Azure service. In this article we will take a closer look at its main features in more detail. SQL Azure is a relational database solution with the capability to support both Windows Azure and on-premise applications with minimum latency. It is considered a managed service and it’s offered by Microsoft to allow you to build applications without concerning yourself about the storage they’ll use. Being a cloud service, SQL Azure gives you all the benefits of the cloud including: -          The hardware and software that support the SQL database are all managed by Microsoft -          Patching and maintenance are also managed by Microsoft -          High availability and fault tolerance are guaranteed by an SLA (Service-level agreement) -    ... (more)

Node.Js server monitoring, part 2

Last time we mentioned two fundamental principles while monitoring any object: 1. The monitor should collect as much important information as possible that will allow to accurately evaluate the health state of an object. 2. The monitor should have little to no effect on the activity of the object. Sure, these two principles work against each other in most of cases, but with Node.js they work together quite nicely because Node.js is based on event-driven technology and doesn’t use the traditional threads-driven approach. This technology allows to register many listeners for one even... (more)

Eighteen Open Source Content Management Systems (Part 3)

This is the third blog post in a series of blog posts about open source Content Management Systems (CMS). You can find the first two parts here (Part 1) and here (Part 2) . In the last article in this series we covered Xoops, Seotoaster, e107, Concrete5, and Typo3, five leading Content Management Systems. In this article we talk about the next five: MediaWiki, Moveable Type, dotCMS, Dotclear, and Zope/Plone.   11. Media Wiki MediaWiki is a PHP designed open source software wiki package, initially built for use on Wikipedia. Now it is used by several other projects of the no... (more)

Windows Azure Overview Part 4: Security

This blog post is part of the series on Windows Azure. You can read the rest of this series here (Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3). There are very few organizations that apply as many security measures as Microsoft does for its Windows Azure service. Listed below are some of the precautions Microsoft has implemented for Windows Azure to secure your applications and data: Secret Locations of Datacenters For almost every organization, the datacenter is somewhere inside it. It’s not that hard for an intruder to find out the exact location. Microsoft keeps the information on the wherabouts o... (more)

Google Analytics with Monitis Dashboard

Google Analytics (GA) is a free service provided by Google for collecting statistics about website visitors. The product is currently in use by around 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites across the globe. GA can track visitors, sessions, traffic sources, goal conversions, page performance metrics and more. GA is implemented by including what is referred to as the Google Analytics Tracking Code (GATC), and is a snippet of JavaScript code that the user adds onto every page of website. This code collects visitor data and sends it to a Google data collection server. Monitis’ GA M... (more)