Kafka is not dead, it’s just in a different packaging
‘Kafka is dead’ is a statement that is circulating more and more often. Critics point to a lack of innovation, the complexity of the product and the emergence of …
Category: Microsoft Azure
INTEGRATE 2024, the Largest Microsoft Integration Tech Conference
On 10 & 11 June 2024, INTEGRATE 2024, the Largest Microsoft Integration Tech Conference was held in Kings Place, London. I attended this conference remotely. This year was the …
Understanding PaaS Complexity: Practical Tips for Managing Cloud Challenges
Explore the hidden complexities of PaaS services and learn practical strategies to manage them effectively, ensuring simplicity, speed, and efficiency in cloud computing.
The cloud is temporarily full (well, this region anyway)
It is tempting to consider the cloud a limitless of resources that are always available to us to provision our services from. However, that is of course too simplistic. …
When Azure could not be reached – Analysis of a global Public Cloud Outage
Microsoft provided valuable insight into the behind the scenes situation for a global network incident that happened about a year ago. In this article, I try to summarize my …
Building a simple REST API with Azure Functions V4
Welcome to this guide on building a REST API with Azure Functions V4. In this guide, we’ll walk through the steps to create a simple CRUD API using TypeScript, …
Installing Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS, Visual Studio Code, Terraform and Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) on a virtual machine using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox
Previously, for a TypeScript training, I needed an environment with Visual Studio Code and Node.js (a JavaScript runtime). In a previous article, I shared with you the steps I …
Apache NiFi: Monitoring metrics and provenance events using Azure Log Analytics
There are several cases where you might want to use Azure Log Analytics to monitor your NiFi instances. An obvious one is when NiFi is running in Azure. Azure …
Azure API Management: Integration with Standard Logic Apps
In January 2022 there was a blog published on the Microsoft Tech Community that demonstrates how to integrate Azure API Management with Logic Apps (Standard). As mentioned in that …
How to scale and smarten up a real-life energy grid with Azure IoT
In this episode of the IoT Show, we discuss the IoT smart grid project that AMIS Conclusion has created for a customer in The Netherlands. We talk about a …
Continuous Generation and Publication of Docstring Documentation on Azure – using Sphinx, Pydoc, Storage Account and App Service
August 17, 2021
Cloud, Containers, Deployment, Docker, Microsoft Azure, Python, Software Engineering, Technology
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In this blog I will explain how to generate static HTML pages from your projects Pydoc (docstring) comments with Sphinx. Then we are going to host it in an …
Check for RunAs accounts in Automation Accounts
Introduction Some time ago, I wrote about the new preview feature in Azure Automation Accounts to use Managed Identities . I think that it is useful to migrate to …
Using a Managed Identity with Azure Automation Accounts
Introduction I think that every production environment in Azure uses Automation Accounts for f.e. scheduled tasks. Up to recently, you were forced to use the Run As user to …
Delete play-resources from Azure using runbooks
Learning a new cloud can be frighting: do I configure this right? And, when I click here, don’t I end up with a huge bill at the end of …
VNet peering in Azure
Introduction I looked into virtual network peering peering in Azure and I saw something that looked rather strange to me. Let me explain what it was, how VNet peering …
How to add a user in Azure Active Directory
Adding a user in Azure Active Directory caused some troubles: it didn’t work as I thought it would. Let me explain. Adding the user I went to Azure Active …
Playing with AI in Azure
When I was learning about Azure AI, I asked myself the question: “how far is AI? What can it determine – and what is impossible (yet)?” A nice tool …
How to manage local IoT complexity with Azure IoT Edge
Whenever there is a more complex IoT solution with dependency on local business logic and the need for autonomous operations an edge device is quickly an important part of …
Getting Started with serverless Azure Static WebApps (React, Angular, Vue, .. + backend)
Azure Static WebApps is a fairly new Azure service, currently in preview. Azure WebApps is a managed, serverless service that allows us to quickly deploy and publicly expose a …
Deploy A Docker Container To AWS With Azure Pipelines
Introduction In response to a demo I gave about deploying a docker container to the Azure platform, I received some questions about deploying a docker container to the AWS …
Connect Azure Pipelines with sonarcloud through maven (YAML)
Introduction Sonarcloud is a static code analysis tool. This means that it checks out the code at your repository, does an analysis and shows you the results. It may …
Azure Pipelines: publish to Azure Artifacts
This article is a follow-up to my previous article about using Azure Artifacts for own NPM modules. In that article I showed how to create a NPM module by …
Using Azure Artifacts for your own NPM modules
Currently I am working on a customer project in which we build a lot of Azure (serverless) functions, mostly in Javascript. Sometime ago we foresaw that we need some …
Deploy Angular and Node.js webapp in Azure Pipelines (part 5)
In the previous article I explained how to set up multiple environments for Azure Pipelines. In this article I will explain how you can deploy the artifacts to the …
On-premise VM’s and Azure Pipelines: Set up with multiple stages in Azure Pipelines (part 4)
In the previous article we discussed how we can build a pipeline and at some tests to it. In this article we’re going to discuss how we can set …
Add tests for Angular and Node.js webapp in Azure Pipelines (part 3)
In the previous article I showed how to build a webapp in the Azure pipeline. In this article I will explain to you how you run tests in your …
Azure Pipeline: Build Angular and Node.js webapp (part 2)
In the previous article, we discussed how we can set up a pipeline with multiple stages in Azure Pipelines. In this article we will discuss how we can build …
Azure Pipelines: Using and set up a webapp (part 1)
This will be the first part 5 part series about Azure Pipelines. In this first part I will explain to you how to set up your Azure Pipeline so …
Azure Pipelines: How to build and test an Angular and Node.js webapp and deploy it to on-premise VM’s using multiple stages (YAML) – Overview
What is Azure Pipelines? Azure pipelines is a free continuous integration/continuous delivery tool from Azure Devops (Microsoft). Not only can it deploy to the azure cloud, it can also …
Mapping Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure core concepts – Part One
All major public clouds are organized in similar ways. However, terms used for certain similar constructs can be (quite) different, or the same terms are used for quite different …
Using bindings to connect Azure Functions to Azure Queue Storage
Recently I started working in the Azure Cloud and I would like to share an example I worked on that helped me understand the possibilities of this cloud environment. …
What is Apache Drill and how to setup your Proof-of-Concept
March 11, 2019
Data Analytics, Big Data, Data Warehousing & BI, Database, Databases, Microsoft Azure, NoSQL
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Apache Drill is a schema-free SQL query engine. Drill supports a variety of NoSQL databases and file systems, including HBase, MongoDB, MapR-DB, HDFS, MapR-FS, Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, …
Blaming and Praising Room Occupiers Using Outlook API, InfluxDB, IoT and Azure serverless functions
At our offices, we suspect that rooms are being booked but go unused when the booker claimed to need it. All of our rooms are equipped with movement (PIR) …
InfluxDB V2.0 – Stack Implementation Proof of Concept
February 25, 2019
Internet Of Things, Cloud, Database, Databases, Frontend technology, Microsoft Azure
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This blogpost will give you detailed instructions and information regarding the InfluxDB stack. Since February 2019 InfluxDB now consists not only the database itself, but also Telegraf, Chronograf and …
Edge Computing with Azure IoT Reference Architecture
This blog will explain what Edge Computing is and why we need this. We also explain the broader concept of Fog Computing.
IoT is silo integration using Azure Reference Architecture
In IoT, we bridge the gap between the physical world and the enterprise IT systems to unlock the data and create real business value.
Minikube on Windows. Hyper-V vs Vagrant/VirtualBox
Kubernetes is a system for running and coordinating containerized applications across a cluster of machines. Minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster and can be used for local development. In …
How to deploy InfluxDB in Azure using a VM service with dedicated storage
October 12, 2018
Database, Cloud, Containers, Databases, Docker, IT, Microsoft Azure, NoSQL
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InfluxDB isn’t natively supported on Azure. This blog post will teach you how to deploy InfluxDB (or any other database) in a VM with a managed disk on …
Oracle, Azure Cloud and licensing with hyperthreading enabled.
Until recently, there was one rule when deploying Oracle software in the Azure cloud: count one Azure CPU Core as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license. But there was …
Oracle Open World 2017; day 1 observations
Just a quick note about day 1 at Oracle Open World. This Sunday traditionally is filled with presentations of usergroups, customers and product management, and at the end of …