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
Integration Azure Data Factory 2.0 - How is it different from Azure Logic Apps? TL;DR - Azure Logic Apps & Azure Data Factory are both orchestrators, but how do they differ from each other? Well, combining both are the sweet spot. In my previous post, we've
Data Azure Data Factory 2.0 - Next Generation of Data Integration TL;DR - Microsoft announced Azure Data Factory v2 at Ignite bringing that enables more data integration scenarios and brings SSIS into the cloud. Azure Data Factory is one of those services in
Security Azure Key Vault made simple with Azure AD Managed Service Identity (MSI) TL;DR - Azure Key Vault is hard but that's because you need to understand & implement the authentication with Azure AD. That's why Azure AD Managed Service Identity (MSI) now makes this
Scalability Autoscaling your platform with Azure Monitor TL;DR - Autoscaling is a great way to not only optimize your costs but also a flexible way of doing asynchronous processing.We will look at how Azure Monitor Autoscale allows you
Security Security & Data Announcements at Ignite 2017 A few weeks ago, Microsoft held another edition of its Ignite conference in Orlando, FL. After going through most of the announcements and digesting them I found that there were a couple of
Microsoft Azure Exploring Azure Event Grid - Are Service Bus Topics Dead? TL;DR - In this 3rd and last article on Azure Event Grid, we'll have a look at how this relates to Azure Service Bus Topics and why they are still relevant. Read
Microsoft Azure Exploring Azure Event Grid - Looking ahead TL;DR - In this 2nd article on Azure Event Grid, we'll have a look at what I'd like to see being added to Azure Event Grid. Read my introduction on Azure Event
