Tom Kerkhove

Microsoft

Microsoft 💘 Open Source - Giving back to open source

Learn how Microsoft is giving back through contributions, .NET Foundation and its Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) fund.

OSS

Microsoft 💘 Open Source - Microsoft makes it easier to build scalable platforms

Learn how Microsoft is making it easier to build scalable platforms through Kubernetes, containerization, open-sourcing Azure Functions runtime and contributing to open standards.

OSS

Microsoft 💘 Open Source - Azure makes it easy to run open-source products

Learn how Microsoft Azure makes it simpler to run open-source products.

OSS

Microsoft 💘 Open Source - Journey to open source

An overview of Microsoft's journey to open-source.

Azure PaaS

Running Azure PaaS anywhere using Azure application services with Azure Arc

Azure application services with Azure Arc brings the cloud to their customers, instead of the customers to the cloud.

Autoscaling

Why Alibaba Cloud uses KEDA for application autoscaling

Learn why Alibaba Cloud is using KEDA.

Autoscaling

Automatically forwarding Azure Monitor Autoscale events to Azure Event Grid

Learn how you can forward Azure Monitor Autoscale events to Azure Event Grid by using a simple adapter.

Microsoft Azure

Introducing Kubernetes Event Grid Bridge

Bringing Kubernetes events to Microsoft Azure.

Promitor

Announcing Promitor 2.0

Bringing Azure Monitor metrics where you need them.

Azure Logic Apps

Autoscaling Azure Container Instances with Azure Serverless

Azure provides a variety of services to host your workloads on them, all of them with their unique selling points. When choosing your compute infrastructure, you implicitly choose how you will scale them. Azure Container Instances (ACI) is a great way to run container workloads and positions itself between Azure

Azure Monitor

Monitoring Azure Service Bus Topic subscriptions

Azure Monitor does not provide metrics for Azure Service Bus Topics to visualize, alert or autoscale on; in this post, I'll provide some workarounds to make it possible.

Kubernetes

KEDA 2.0 is now generally available and ready to scale all your workloads

Over the past year(s), we’ve seen more and more customers moving their applications to Kubernetes to use an open-platform to run their applications on. However; using Kubernetes is not a walk in the park, certainly when you are new to it. One of those challenging aspects, certainly in

Azure

Announcing Deprecation Notice Timeline in Azure Deprecation Notices

Announcing Deprecation Notice Timeline, providing a full overview of all the deprecations and how to prepare best!

Microsoft Azure

Announcing Azure Deprecation Notices

Trying to keep up with the deprecation of Azure services & features? Don't worry, we've got this!

Azure Logic Apps

Why Running Azure Logic Apps Anywhere is a Game Changer

This takes Microsoft's integration strategy to the next level

.NET

Introducing Secret Store

Making secrets a first-class citizen in .NET Core

Azure Functions

Why is my Azure Function host permanently stopped?!

Azure Function forces the host to shut down if app_offline.htm is in your wwwroot folder

Azure Event Grid

How Azure Event Grid is different from logs, alerts, change feeds and webhooks

In this post, I'll explain how Azure Event Grid is different from diagnostic logs, alerts, change feeds and webhooks.

Azure Event Grid

Technology highlights of 2019

I'll cover my most favorite highlights about the things I've been excited and/or passionate last year, most of them will be about Microsoft Azure and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

Scalability

Autoscaling Made Simple With KEDA v1.0

Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) v1.0 is now available - Let's have a look at what's new and where it's going.

Promitor

Announcing Promitor v1.0

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

Microsoft Azure

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.