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
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.
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
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
Logic Apps Using multiple operations in one controller in custom API App & Azure Logic Apps TL;DR - In my Web API I was using one controller with multiple operations that had the same method names which generated invalid Swagger. Here is how I found out what the
Conference Mastering Azure Analytics, Integration of Things, Techorama and more! It's been a while since I've written a new post for the simple reason that I didn't have any time left. Behind the scenes I was doing a ton of things that you
Monitoring Talking about Azure Application Monitoring on .NET Rocks! Recently I was a guest on .NET Rocks to talk about Application Monitoring on Microsoft Azure but we started off by talking about another challenging task in Azure - Keeping track of what
Microsoft Azure Making Secrets, Certificates and Keys Easier with Sentinel for Azure Key Vault One of my favorite services in Azure is Key Vault, of which I have written about a while back. Since then they even added support for creating, managing and monitoring your Azure Key