The massive shift from monolithic to microservices architecture has caused a considerable demand for distributed tracing. Traditional monitoring tools were designed for monolithic applications, so they primarily provide insights into application performance rather than how a request flows through the application.

However, if you are working with a microservices architecture, it is crucial to track every user request and the path of the request flow across multiple applications.

The Service Bus Queues and Topics are enterprise-level messaging technologies offered by Microsoft Azure to make messaging between services more reliable. Anyone using them for their business should be familiar with a concept known as message dead-lettering.

Now, let's begin by discussing Service Bus dead-letter Queues, how they work, and most importantly, the top choices you should consider for monitoring the same.

Do you know that you can logically organize your Azure resources by category? Once you login to Microsoft Azure portal, you can categorize them by using Tags. Tags enable you to retrieve related resources from different Resource Groups.

To know how to organize Azure resources using tags, let's discuss this in today's post as part of my Azure Tips and Tricks series.

Have you heard about Global Directory and Subscription Filter on the Microsoft Azure Portal? This filter allows you to select a set of Azure Subscriptions and save them as default Azure subscriptions. Using this, you will be able to better manage your resources online.

If you didn't hear about this subscription filtering yet, we are going to quickly discuss about it in today's Azure Tips and Tricks post.

While working with Azure Resources, you may ask the question: "Can I move an Azure Resource from one Resource Group to another Resource Group?". If that's your question, the answer is 'Yes, you can change the Resource Group'.

In this quick tip, we will learn how to achieve this from the Microsoft Azure Portal. Continue reading to know more.

If you are using Microsoft Azure Portal, you may already know how to change the theme of the portal. This can be done from the Azure Portal Settings itself, which provides you four different themes at this moment.

But, do you know that you can easily switch from one theme to the other without navigating to the portal settings? In this quick tip, we are going to discuss about it.

Microsoft Azure allows you to easily move Azure Resources from one Subscription to the other, if they are under the same account. You can use the Azure Portal to quickly perform this operation. Today, in this article we will learn how to do this.

Just follow the step-by-step process mentioned in this article to move Azure Resources from one subscription to the other.

Few days ago, I wrote about “Introduction to Azure Mobile Services” and I hope, that gave you basic overview of the same. As ongoing tutorial on this subject, we will learn how to integrate mobile service in our app to utilize the already available APIs.

But before that, we need to create the service. Today, in this blog post, we will learn how to create the mobile service from the Azure portal.

After pausing for few days, I have decided to write a series of tutorials in this blog. This time, I have chosen Azure Mobile Services based on the overwhelming responses I have received on Azure in my past few events. It’s better to be late than never and thus I am starting with an introduction to Azure mobile service.

In this post, we will learn about mobile service, it’s benefits followed by in-depth chapters on the same along with integration in Windows/Windows Phone apps.