Microsoft Azure Application Performance

Azure eCommerce has a remarkably capable infrastructure to allow clients to scale their application up, down or horizontally. Another option would be to scale out their application, so that the Azure eCommerce instance can grow and adapt to the levels of visitor traffic that are coming into the application.

Various businesses are of a constantly evolving nature, where they may experience a peak usage time during a particular part of the day or week. Another possibility is a high or low season(s), where resources need to be scaled up, down or out, in order to successfully meet demand for the web application.

A beneficial aspect of Azure eCommerce is how it's sitting on an infrastructure that Microsoft has configured to be highly optimizable. Within software development, there's a general notion that it's usually less expensive to leverage more physical and virtualized resources than it is to build on the infrastructure side. Optimizing code and focusing on application development frequently abides by the law of diminishing returns; at some point it becomes logical to improve performance within the application.

On the other hand, there are a lot of low-hanging fruit capabilities within Azure itself, where the law of diminishing returns is consistently much less applicable. In most cases, you can get much more bang for your buck by improving the Microsoft Azure infrastructure optimization.

Increase Performance with Expert Optimization

We definitely recommend working with an expert team to review your Azure eCommerce instance. To begin with, you could simply follow the performance recommendations in the respective performance tuning guides. But to get deeper, a set of additional queries and optimization routines should be performed, in order to determine where the Azure eCommerce application may not be fully benefiting from the most optimized settings and configurations.

Clarity brings to bear a significant amount of experience with optimizing app services and Azure SQL instances. The Clarity team is specialized in completing audits and tests using the built-in Microsoft Azure tools, while understanding the implications of any possible changes. Sometimes, certain alterations might cause bigger problems within the application functionality. In order to effectively enhance the performance of the Azure eCommerce application, expert judgement is required so that only reasonable and logical adjustments or configuration updates will be performed.

To provide a specific example of Azure eCommerce optimization, let's consider the toughest challenges that most users typically face when they're considering a cloud-based environment like Azure. Those usually include the concept of how billing works and how the resource allocation is throttled, based on purchasing or other factors. For example, each App Service in the Azure service plan may have different allocated amounts, including nuances that may not be apparent nor obvious upfront, such as data Input/Output against the hard drive that's associated with the application service.

In other words, whenever the application itself is running, there are actual limitations on how much of the different resources within that App Service we can use for the amount that we've spent -or spending- on those App Services. So if we're at a certain lower tier, even though the physical RAM and the CPU may not be getting maxed out, the Input/Output portion of the resources may be at -or beyond- the allowable threshold. Essentially, the presence of a performance constraint within the App Services part of the stack may not be immediately obvious.

• Microsoft Azure eCommerce Overview
• Microsoft Azure Security Platform
• SQL Database Components for Azure eCommerce
• Application Services within Azure eCommerce
• ECommerce API Integration
• Scaling & Application Performance Optimization
• Elevated Azure eCommerce Security & API Incorporation
• How Caching Raises Performance