Azure @ ESPC19 is fast approaching and the excitement is building! We reached out to some of our Azure Speakers to share their thoughts about the upcoming Azure @ ESPC19 and here’s what they had to say: This year’s Azure line up is awesome, from governance, tips and tricks to best practices, there is learning… READ MORE
Since SQL Server 2012 SP1 you’ve been able to backup and restore SQL Server using Azure Blob storage. This can be useful to have offsite replicated backups or if you need to move data securely between sites, and now with Azure hosted SQL Server (of various stripes) it makes it easy to get data into… READ MORE
To help you excel with Microsoft Azure, and given the sheer number of possibilities and considerations, the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference presents Azure Week – one unmissable week of free, online Azure Learning. ‘Azure Week’ will showcase key learnings and deep expertise from a selection of our ‘Azure @ ESPC19’ Expert Speakers,… READ MORE
In this post, I demonstrate how to automatically purge content from an Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) using Event Grid and Azure Automation. I am writing this post with two audiences in mind. First, if you have a CDN and need to purge old content every time content is updated or removed from a source,… READ MORE
A Content Delivery Network, or CDN, is a globally distributed network for delivering, well, content. Content can include images, videos, CSS and any other asset used for providing web services. The advantages to a CDN include: caching data closer to the users to increase web site performance, improving reliability by leveraging a global caching network… READ MORE
Back in 2017, Microsoft announced the introduction of B-Series compute. Since then, the service offering hasn’t changed a huge amount but it is one of the most consistently misunderstood VM SKUs available. Part of this is how they are displayed on the portal. Classed alongside the D series as “General purpose” but with a much… READ MORE
This post describes how you can easily enable debug/verbose information for your Azure Functions for a lightweight and built-in way to extract just a bit more information out of your Azure Function executions. There’s different methods available for Azure and your local development environment. Problem Azure Functions are awesome. But by default, your tools on… READ MORE
This post is a companion to the following GitHub repository:https://github.com/gbaeke/aks-traefik-azure-deploy. The repository contains ARM templates to deploy an AD integrated Kubernetes cluster and an IP address plus a Helm chart to deploy Traefik. Traefik is configured to use the deployed IP address. In addition to those files, the repository also contains the YAML pipeline, ready… READ MORE
Introduction If you have not heard of Hugo Static Site Generator then I am happy you are here. Static site generators are the “new black” in web site development. If you are here to read how I did it then you might want to skim over this post and jump into the next one (once I write… READ MORE
Azure Kubernetes Service aka (AKS) is a managed service provided by Microsoft Azure to deploy micro-service applications quickly and managed those apps with less administrative efforts. With a Kubernetes release of v1.14 it enable the production level support for windows nodes and containers. With this announcement, AKS team announce the Windows server container support for the… READ MORE
