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.
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
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 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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
