Recently Azure Storage team announced the availability of blob versions. A blob version essentially represents the state of a blob (in terms of content, properties and metadata etc.) at a particular point of time. Azure Storage automatically creates a new version of a blob whenever it is modified or … [Read more...]
Avoiding “AuthorizationFailed” error when hand-crafting Shared Access Signature for Azure Storage
February 21, 2020 by 1 Comment
I've been quite active on Stack Overflow answering a lot of Azure related questions (mostly around Azure Storage). One thing I noticed there is that there are a lot of folks running into issues when they're trying to write code themselves for creating Shared Access Signature. Most of the errors they … [Read more...]
Azure Cosmos DB and Node SDK – Part III: Working with Documents
July 5, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In the previous posts in this series, we saw how you can work with databases and containers in Cosmos DB using their Node SDK. You can read those posts here: Part I: Working with databases: https://gauravmantri.com/2019/06/04/cosmos-db-and-node-sdk-working-with-databases/Part II: Working with … [Read more...]
Cosmos DB and Node SDK – Part II: Working with Containers
June 13, 2019 by 9 Comments
In the previous post, we saw how we can use Node SDK for Cosmos DB to work with databases. You can read that post here: https://gauravmantri.com/2019/06/04/cosmos-db-and-node-sdk-working-with-databases/. In this post, we will see how we can manage containers in a Cosmos DB database using Node … [Read more...]
Cosmos DB and Node SDK – Part I: Working with Databases
June 4, 2019 by 1 Comment
It has been a while that I wrote something :). There have been so many things I learnt in last few years and I wanted to share my learnings but one thing or other kept me away. I am hoping that I will be break this and post regularly going forward. With my work on Cerebrata Cerulean, I got an … [Read more...]
Attitude Matters (When It Comes To Winning Users Over)!
September 14, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Earlier this month we deprecated our flagship product (Azure Management Studio) and replaced that with a brand-new product (Cerulean). You can read more about the deprecation on our website at https://blog.cerebrata.com/azure-management-studio-is-being-deprecated-please-upgrade-to-cerulean/. We … [Read more...]
Oops! I Deleted My Blobs! What Can I Do?
February 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Honestly, Nothing! But that’s before reading this post. After reading this post, you don’t have to worry about a thing. In this post we will talk about Soft Delete functionality recently announced by Azure Storage. This super cool functionality will protect your blobs against accidental (or … [Read more...]
Zone Redundant Storage (Preview v/s Classic)–Compared & Contrasted
January 31, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Recently I ran into this blog post by Azure Storage Team: Azure Zone Redundant Storage in public preview. When I saw this post, the first thought that came to my mind was “it must surely be a mistake” , after all Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) has been available for quite some time now. Out of … [Read more...]
Understanding Azure Storage Blob Access Tiers
October 15, 2017 by
It has been really-really long time that I have written a blog post. Past year or so has been simply crazy. From acquiring Cerebrata back to building a brand new product (Cerulean) from scratch, things kept me quite busy. In this blog post we will talk about blob access tiers. We will talk about … [Read more...]
My Thoughts On Current Euphoria Over Startups In India
February 29, 2016 by 5 Comments
Nowadays everyone wants to do a startup. There is a general feeling that if they are not doing a startup, they are not doing anything . I was listening to an old song by Amitabh Bachchan and took the liberty of modifying it to reflect the current sentiment : इक रहिन ईर (Once there was Eer) इक … [Read more...]