Azure - Tom Kerkhove

Autoscaling Awareness in Azure

Learn how you can standardize on Azure Event Grid as your centralized autoscaling hub and build an autoscaling-over-time dashboard.

Azure

Introducing Azure Autoscaling Toolbox 🧰

Azure Autoscaling Toolbox strives to become the one-stop shop for autoscaling in Azure

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

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!

Azure Logic Apps

Why Running Azure Logic Apps Anywhere is a Game Changer

This takes Microsoft's integration strategy to the next level

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

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.

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!

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 maintain the cluster beneath it. In this article I’ll walk you through what it is, what

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

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 thrilled to be a guest on the RunAs Radio podcast and to talk with Richard Campbell about

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 went through the new features of Azure Data Factory 2.0 on how it leverages more triggers

Key Vault

Securing sensitive data with Azure Key Vault

Security is and will always be very important. In the past years we've seen how Snowden revealed the activities of the NSA, how a big company as Sony can be hacked, how governments spy on each other, etc. Next to that we also have the new technologies and concepts like

Azure

Notify your Slack team for new Yammer conversations with Azure App Services

Microsoft's Yammer has been around for a while and people who are part of one or more networks will agree that Yammer can turn into Spammer. For each new conversation & comment Yammer will send you an email resulting in mail floods. The easy fix would be to disable the