a developer's notebook
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…
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…
Visual Studio 2017 is now available to download, and one interesting feature thereof is connected services, which enable connections between your app and any service on-premises or in the cloud. In this post we are going to demonstrate how easy it is to connect your asp.net core web app to Application Insights. “Connected Services” is the new “Add Connected Service” or “Add Service Reference” feature…
To keep things tidy, in case you have multiple subscriptions associated with your Azure account, it’s a good practice to name them in a way that makes sense to you. For example, if you have an msdn subscription, the default name in Azure Portal is “Visual Studio Enterprise“, or if you have applied for a Visual Studio Dev Essentials program, the default name is “Developer Program…
Azure App service provides an easy way to track your web app’s availability / health and to get details on when and why your app wasn’t available. This kind of info is available through the web app’s blade, when selecting Diagnose and solve problems A new page appears with details on: app’s availability; requests per 5 minutes; and when and why your app…
There are times when you might want to move an app from one App Service plan to another. This can be done easily through Azure Portal, provided that the app service plans comply with the restrictions below, namely that they are: in the same resource group, and in the same geographical region. Let’s assume that you have a web app called web-app-demo-1 and three different…
Azure App Service can be integrated with a plethora of services like BitBucket, GitHub, Dropbox, OneDrive, Visual Studio Team Services, local or any external git repository, while it enables a continuous deployment workflow, where Azure pulls in the most recent updates from a project published to one of these services. One of the most common options is to configure continuous deployment…
Microsoft Azure platform is evolving at a very fast pace and keeping up with all the changes may be challenging. Many products and services are released every week, while new ones are announced as being in public preview or under development. For that reason, Microsoft has built the Microsoft Cloud Platform Roadmap, which provides a snapshot of what Microsoft is working on in its Cloud Platform business….
