Tom Kerkhove

Announcing Promitor v1.0

Promitor v1.0 is now available! This article talks about all the new features & new scrapers.

The danger of using config.AddAzureKeyVault() in .NET Core

.NET Core provides a great way to define where your configuration is located. However, the provider for Azure Key Vault is a bit tricky and you should be cautious about potentially wrong credentials due to stale caches.

Containers

Mounting Volumes on Azure Web App for Containers

Azure Storage is a great way to mount a volume to your Azure Web App for Containers and is currently in preview.

Operations

Documenting ASP.NET Core Health Checks with OpenAPI

Health endpoints are essential for building operable platforms. ASP.NET Core provides built-in health checks nowadays, but there was no way to provide OpenAPI specs for them. Let's have a look at an easy fix

Scalability

Scaling .NET Core apps with Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling (KEDA)

Learn how you can autoscale a .NET Core 3.0 worker based on Service Bus queue size in Kubernetes with KEDA.

Scalability

Exploring Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling (KEDA)

Microsoft & Red Hat partnered to build Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling (KEDA). Let's have a look at what it is and how it can help us.

Azure Event Grid

Azure Event Grid, the heart of Azure

Azure Event Grid is a fully-managed event routing service which is a foundational service in Azure. Other Azure services start to emit events to it as well, but we need more of them to make the Azure ecosystem better.

Azure Monitor

3 Azure Monitor hidden gems you should use

Azure is full of hidden gems which makes your life easier, here are some I discovered which I find useful

Azure Event Grid

Announcing Arcus

Arcus provides a set of open-source components that make it easier to build applications that run on Microsoft Azure

Azure Monitor

New Azure Logic Apps template for handling Azure Monitor Metric Alerts

You can now create an Azure Alert handler in Azure Logic Apps by using a new template. Here's how!

API Gateway

Running Kong on Microsoft Azure

Learn how you can easily run Kong on Microsoft Azure and configure it to serve traffic from Open Brewery DB secured with API key authentication.

Event-driven

Accepting Azure Event Grid events with Azure API Management

Azure API Management & Azure Event Grid are a great combination, but it needs some setup. I've contributed an API Management policy to get you started!

API Gateway

Kong, the upcoming king of the API jungle

Kong is an open-source lightweight API gateway and is becoming a big player in the API industry, but what is it exactly? Let's have a look.

Scalability

Autoscaling Applications on Kubernetes - Cluster Autoscaling

Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler allows you to automatically scale your cluster by adding more nodes. This ensures that the cluster always provides enough capacity to run your applications on.

Scalability

Autoscaling Applications on Kubernetes - A Primer

Kubernetes provides different capabilities in terms of scalability. This primer is the first part of a series that introduces you to concepts and how to scale your cluster & applications.

Event Grid

Writing integration tests for Azure Event Grid

Azure Event Grid is a serverless pub/sub engine for building event-based architectures, but how do you test your applications? Let's have a look.

Service Bus

Monitoring Azure Service Bus entities with Azure Monitor - Where did my messages go?

TL;DR - Azure Service Bus metrics in Azure Monitor have a lifetime. If your entity goes idle, Azure Monitor will start showing '0' as a value after 2 hours. Promitor has been

Azure

Service Fabric Mesh - A new way of running containerized applications

TL;DR – As of today, Azure Service Fabric Mesh is in public preview and is a true PaaS offering which allows you to run applications on top of Service Fabric, without having to

NuGet

Using Renovate to maintain NuGet, Docker and other dependencies

Renovate automatically checks if there are new versions of your NuGet & Docker dependencies and helps to keep them up to date via automatic pull requests

OSS

Announcing a new Active Directory Connector for Logic Apps

TL;DR - Codit is growing and so does Alfred. Nowadays we are automatically synchronizing every Codit employee by using Azure Logic Apps and built our own AD connector which is now open-source.

Data Factory

Using Azure Serverless to become GDPR compliant

GDPR mandates that you make data available to users on their request. In this post I show you how you can use Azure Serverless to achieve this with very little effort.

Azure

Changes to OpenAPI interpretation in Azure API Management

Providing clean and well-documented APIs is a must and allows your consumers to know what you provide, what they are for and what to expect. Azure API Management released a new version that changes the OpenAPI interpretation. This article dives into the potential impact on your consumer experience

Community

MVP Summit, Techdays Finland, NDC Minnesota, Techorama & Intelligent Cloud Conference

Lately, my blog has been pretty quiet and thats for a reason - I've been pretty busy with travelling, coding and preparing talks.

Azure

Talking Azure Data Factory on RunAs Radio

A while back I wrote about how you can use Azure Data Factory to build next generation of data integration piplines and how is it compares to Azure Logic Apps. Recently I was

Microsoft Azure

Building systems in the cloud

TL;DR - Things change, and so does the cloud. New services are being added and integration between services is being improved, but services also become deprecated. We need to embrace change and