Platform for Mobile Application Web Services

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NorthWestPerm2Contr replied

19 April 2016, 13:26
Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

I know some systems that are using Azure and are scaling up quite fast, have you tried running some numbers through their pricing calculator?

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/

I've had a look at the pricing model and for Proof of Concept it looks great... However, I have no experience in Big Data and how these things can scale up so quickly. I guess if that happens though then at least I'll know its successful and I can get some contractors in to sort out the problem
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SimonMac replied

19 April 2016, 13:23
Originally posted by NorthWestPerm2Contr View Post

Have utilised Amazon Web Services (with EC2 Windows and RDS SQL Server) for Plan B but now looking at a Plan C which is a much larger scale scenario. Looking at a social media kind of application (though not on the scale of Facebook etc. obviously).

So far I've been doing some research and found these to be all viable options:

Couchbase
Azure

One of the articles I read:

How to choose a database for your mobile apps | InfoWorld

Azure is the one I am most attracted to as I'm a Microsoft man, but is it worthwhile looking at Big Data alternatives at this stage or will Azure allow us to scale up as necessary?

I know some systems that are using Azure and are scaling up quite fast, have you tried running some numbers through their pricing calculator?

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/
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NorthWestPerm2Contr started a topic Platform for Mobile Application Web Services

19 April 2016, 13:17
Platform for Mobile Application Web Services

Have utilised Amazon Web Services (with EC2 Windows and RDS SQL Server) for Plan B but now looking at a Plan C which is a much larger scale scenario. Looking at a social media kind of application (though not on the scale of Facebook etc. obviously).

So far I've been doing some research and found these to be all viable options:

Couchbase
Azure

One of the articles I read:

How to choose a database for your mobile apps | InfoWorld

Azure is the one I am most attracted to as I'm a Microsoft man, but is it worthwhile looking at Big Data alternatives at this stage or will Azure allow us to scale up as necessary?
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