Microsoft Azure - Tom Kerkhove

Introducing Kubernetes Event Grid Bridge

Bringing Kubernetes events to Microsoft Azure.

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.

Microsoft Azure

Announcing Azure Deprecation Notices

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

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.

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.

Azure Event Grid

Azure Event Grid, the heart of Azure

Azure Event Grid is a fully-managed event routing service which is a foundational service in Azure. Other Azure services start to emit events to it as well, but we need more of them to make the Azure ecosystem better.

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.

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. Just over a year ago, Codit welcomed Alfred, our personal butler that is taking care of our

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

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 design for it. Our industry has shifted quite a lot in the past recent years where we

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 Azure that is really great but that doesn't get the attention that it deserves. It is a

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 interesting ones in the security & data space. Let's have a closer look. Introducing Virtual Network Service

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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 my introduction on Azure Event Grid here. No, Service Bus Topic are not dead. I don't think

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 Grid here. With a nice foundation of Event Publishers & Handlers, we can expect a vast amount

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. Last week Microsoft announced Azure Event Grid (Preview), an event-driven service that allows you to stitch together

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 issue was, how I fixed it and how I could use all my operation in Azure Logic

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 resources are depending on each other and how they map to your application architecture. Unfortunately there is

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 Vault in the Azure Portal which made it a lot easier! Unfortunately Key Vault doesn't get the

Big Data

Analyzing StackExchange data with Azure Data Lake - Storing the data

Before we can start analysing StackExchange sample data, we'll need to get our data in Azure. There are several options for data storage in Azure, each with a specific goal. For data analytics -espacially with Azure Data Lake Analytics- Azure Data Lake Store is the de facto. In this blog

Big Data

Analyzing StackExchange data with Azure Data Lake - Introduction

A few weeks ago I wrote about what Microsoft announced on Azure Data Lake and what you can expect. As of Wednesday 28th of October, Azure Data Lake Store & Analytics are now in public preview allowing you to try it out yourself. You won't have to worry about any

Data Analytics

Automated builds for Azure Data Lake Analytics extensibility

Recently I have been working on an open-source project around Azure Data Lake Analytics. It will contain custom U-SQL components that you can use in your own projects and already contains a Xml Attribute Extractor. To build my code I'm using MyGet.org because it builds & automatically packages it

Microsoft Azure

Exploring Azure's Data Lake

Recently Microsoft revealed their plans for Azure Data Lake and how it groups several big data services in Azure under one umbrella. In this blog post I'll walk you through what it offers and how it enable you to re-use your existing skills to analyse big data. What is Azure

Microsoft Azure

Automatically dead-letter expired messages in Azure Service Bus & how it works

TL;DR - Automatically expiring messages in Service Bus is a nice feature but you have to be aware that it does not "automatically" move expired messages to the dead-letter queue. In some scenarios this can cause reliability loss. Lately my team and I have been using Service