a developer's notebook
In a previous post we talked about how you can create a simple powershell runbook to automate tasks in your Azure account, such as starting up or shutting down a virtual machine based on a user-defined schedule. In this post, we are going to demonstrate how easy it is to create a webhook, in order to call your Runbook through an…
One of the great things in Cloud computing is the ability to use resources whenever you want them and pay only only for what you are using. In this post, we are going to explore how you may create a schedule to automatically shut down and start up a virtual machine running on Azure, using Azure Automation, based on a…
Sometimes you may need to run Visual Studio as Administrator; to do so, you have to right-click on Visual Studio task bar shortcut, right-click again on Visual Studio and select Run as Administrator. Then, you may open the solution you want manually from File -> Open -> Project/Solution or drop your .sln file onto Visual Studio. To make your life easier, you…
In this post, we are going to explore the necessary steps to build a cluster on Azure Container Service and then setup RabbitMQ using Kubernetes as orchestrator and helm as package manager. First things first, let’s briefly introduce the services we are going to use. What is Azure Container Service? Azure Container Service (ACS) allows you to create, configure and…
In this page you will find tools, related to Networking, to make your Azure journey easier and more fun. Azure Speed Test A simple web tool that measures the latency between you and Azure Datacenters, to suggest which might be fastest for your location. Fiddler (Telerik) A classic tool to debug and monitor traffic between your PC and the Internet….
In this page you will find tools, related to Azure Storage Services, to make your Azure journey easier and more fun. Azure Storage Explorer (Free) A stand-alone app from Microsoft that allows you to easily work with Azure Storage data on Windows, macOS and Linux. AzCopy AzCopy is a command-line utility, designed for copying data to and from Microsoft Azure…
On Windows 10 while trying to start or connect to a VM, on Hyper-V, you might come to the following error: As you are sure that Intel-VTx and DEP is enabled in the BIOS and you verify it through Task Manager you still don’t know what’s the problem. As it turns out to fix the issue you need to run the…
C# 7.0 adds a number of new features and brings the focus on data consumption, code simplification and performance. Perhaps the most interesting feature is tuples, a finite ordered list of values, of possibly different types, which is used to bundle related values together without having to create a specific type to hold them. Tuples are very good for performance reasons, as you don’t…
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy and manage scalable and reliable microservices. Service Fabric also addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud applications. In this post, we will explore how to host an ASP.NET Core web application, alongside a stateless and a stateful service on an Azure Service Fabric cluster,…
Build 2017 is over. A three-day conference, where a lot of great stuff was announced. Apart from the keynotes of every day, there are many technical sessions to watch and learn from. The whole list of sessions is available at Channel 9. Here you may find my picks from the categories I am interested in. Azure Related Visual Studio &…
