Azure

I recently made the move to Cloudflare and have been talking to anyone who will listen about how great it is, both for simplicity and nerdy security features. Yes, even after the media sensation that was #CloudBleed.

One of the things I wanted to do once I moved to Cloudflare was ensure that I had TLS across the entire pipeline. Whilst Cloudflare will ensure you have TLS between the browser and their servers, but they’re a bit more permissive when it comes to TLS between their servers and your origin server (in my case Azure App Service). You’ll see these kinds of images floating around explaining this...

Azure DocumentDB is the Platform-as-a-Service NoSQL document database available on Microsoft's cloud platform Azure. Similar to other popular document databases such as MongoDB and RavenDB, DocumentDB allows for the simple storage of entities as JSON with no enforced schema, but with the added benefit of being Platform-as-a-Service. This means that it is completely managed by Azure, with no need to manage the underlying resources and also the ability to use Azure’s impressive scalability at will. DocumentDB is hosted entirely on SSDs and is very fast, with Azure reporting a 1-2ms call completion when working within the same Azure region.

DocumentDB also has the ability to manage transactions, choose consistency levels, to use complex querying with SQL like syntax, and to use server side features, created using JavaScript, in the form of stored procedures, triggers and user defined functions.By default all documents are indexed, however this can be turned off with only document Id’s being indexed.