a developer's notebook
HTTP/2 is a major revision of the HTTP network protocol used by the World Wide Web and comes with a promise to make our applications faster, simpler, and more robust by allowing us to undo many of the HTTP/1.1 workarounds previously done within our applications and address these concerns within the transport layer itself. In this post, we will showcase how simple it is to…
In this tutorial we will use Computer Vision service to analyze an image and determine the accent and dominant color and whether the image is black & white or colored. Step 1. Create Computer Vision Service Let’s start by creating the Computer Vision API service. To do so, head over to Azure portal, click on Create Resource link, select AI + Machine…
If you have an ASP.NET Core web application that already has JWT authorization, this guide will help you add JWT (JSON Web Token) support to the Swagger UI. What is Swagger UI? Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, Javascript and CSS assets that dynamically generates beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API. You can learn more in https://swagger.io/ and in the project’s…
In this post, we are going to explore the steps needed to easily monitor an angular application for performance and usage, using Azure Application Insights. Azure Application Insights Azure Application Insights is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for web developers that allows you to detect and diagnose issues and gives you insights on how your web apps are used…
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…
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…
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,…
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. It enables you to build and manage scalable and reliable applications, composed of microservices that run at a very high density on a shared pool of machines, which is referred to as a cluster. In addition, it provides a…
One thing you should always keep in mind is backing up your precious work. Bad things may happen sooner or later, so better be prepared for the “unexpected”, than sorry. In a recent talk with a friend, I found out that he wasn’t aware of how easy it is to backup a web app hosted in Azure App Service; so why not write a…
