Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

Considerations

The following considerations should be taken into account while implementing this pattern:

• Partitioning Strategy: Choosing a partition strategy is the key to efficiently balance load across multiple partitions. Following are few of the partitioning strategies which can be considered:
  • Horizontal Partitioning (Sharding)
  • Vertical Partitioning
  • Functional Partitioning

Data Partitioning guidelines published by Microsoft (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn589795.aspx) is a good reference document to understand these strategies.

• Data replication: It is advisable to replicate static data and commonly used data across data partitions to avoid cross partition queries which can be resource consuming.
• Rebalancing: Always ...