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Running Kong on Microsoft Azure
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.

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    Tom Kerkhove
13 min read
Accepting Azure Event Grid events with Azure API Management
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!

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
2 min read
Kong, the upcoming king of the API jungle
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.

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
14 min read
Autoscaling Applications on Kubernetes - Cluster Autoscaling
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.

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    Tom Kerkhove
4 min read
Autoscaling Applications on Kubernetes - A Primer
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.

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
6 min read
Writing integration tests for Azure Event Grid
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.

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
5 min read
Monitoring Azure Service Bus entities with Azure Monitor - Where did my messages go?
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

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
2 min read
Service Fabric Mesh - A new way of running containerized applications
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

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    Tom Kerkhove
8 min read
Using Renovate to maintain NuGet, Docker and other dependencies
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

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    Tom Kerkhove
3 min read
Announcing a new Active Directory Connector for Logic Apps
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.

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    Tom Kerkhove
3 min read
Using Azure Serverless to become GDPR compliant
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.

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    Tom Kerkhove
5 min read
Changes to OpenAPI interpretation in Azure API Management
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

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
5 min read
MVP Summit, Techdays Finland, NDC Minnesota, Techorama & Intelligent Cloud Conference
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.

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
1 min read
Talking Azure Data Factory on RunAs Radio
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

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
1 min read
Building systems in the cloud
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

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
7 min read
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

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
2 min read
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

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
10 min read
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

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
3 min read
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

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
6 min read
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

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    Tom Kerkhove
5 min read
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

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    Tom Kerkhove
2 min 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

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
4 min read
Microsoft Azure

Exploring Azure Event Grid

TL;DR - Azure Event Grid is here - In this first article we'll have a look at what it is, dive into the details and have a look at certain new scenarios.

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
8 min read
Security

Using Azure Functions? Don't use Read-Only Resource Locks, for now.

It's a good practice to secure your Azure resources. One of the approaches to achieve this is by using Resource Locks. These allow you to add Read-Only or Delete locks on your resources

  • Tom Kerkhove
    Tom Kerkhove
1 min read
Speaking at NDC Sydney 2017 on Azure Data Lake
Community

Speaking at NDC Sydney 2017 on Azure Data Lake

Are you going to NDC Sydney August 14th - 18th 2017? So will I! I have the honor to do a talk on Azure Data Lake & Analtics called "Analyzing StackExchange data

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    Tom Kerkhove
1 min read
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