Tag: Azure

Azure Cosmos DB: Use Cases and Trade-Offs
Azure Cosmos DB: Use Cases and Trade-Offs
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Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed, elastically scalable and globally distributed database with a multi-model approach, and provides you with the ability to use document, key-value, wide-column, or graph-based data. In this blog, we will dive into the multi-model capabilities and explore the options that are available to store and access data. Hopefully, it can… READ MORE

Azure Artifacts - External Authentication
Azure Artifacts – External Authentication
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Hello everyone, These days I came across an interesting situation that took me a few hours to resolve and I will document it here for future reference and to help others. In one of the projects I work on we have some packages in a private feed in Azure Artifacts , when we use Azure Devops pipelines… READ MORE

Azure Application Insights - Live Metrics Stream Sample Telemetry
Azure Application Insights – Live Metrics Stream Sample Telemetry
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Hello everyone, One of the best features of Azure Application Insights is the [Live Metrics Stream]( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/live-stream ) which allows us to get an insight in time real data from our servers.Some time ago the Azure team decided to implement mandatory authentication for viewing metrics in Live Stream. Today’s post is about enabling telemetry again since the… READ MORE

Working with CosmosClient in Azure Functions
Working with CosmosClient in Azure Functions
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Azure Functions allows you to inject an instance of the DocumentClient class to perform, read or write operations on your CosmosDB. This concept is known as input binding and there are multiple bindings available for various Azure resources (See Azure Functions triggers and bindings concepts). Unfortunately, there is no input binding for the new CosmosClient class that is part of the .NET SDK v3. In… READ MORE

Auditing and Security Monitoring of Azure Active Directory
Auditing and Security Monitoring of Azure Active Directory
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In a cloud-based world, both for end-users and operator access to management layers the identity provider plays an important part to provide authentication/authorization/accounting and secure authentication mechanisms. Many organizations today use Azure Active Directory to provide these identity mechanisms for both end-users such as accessing Office 365 but also other SaaS based applications. Many also… READ MORE

Symbolic Link to an Azure File Share
Symbolic Link to an Azure File Share
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We recently used a symbolic link to an Azure file share to transparently replace a local folder in which data sets are cached for download. That means that the existing service transparently copies the data sets to an Azure file share without having to change anything in the code to do so. With a small… READ MORE

An Introduction to Kubernetes
An Introduction to Kubernetes
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Deploying ASP.NET Core applications to Kubernetes – Part 1 This is the first post in the series: Deploying ASP.NET Core applications to Kubernetes. Part 1 – An Introduction to Kubernetes (this post) Part 2 – Configuring resources with YAML manifests Part 3 – An introduction to deploying applications with Helm Part 4 – Creating a Helm… READ MORE