It’s already been about 6 months since Microsoft announced Dapr. Dapr, or Distributed Application Runtime, is an open source project with the goal to enable developers to write microservices. That’s a nice goal, and in this blog we’ll explore what this means. Since its launch, I’ve heard more and more about Dapr. As with every […]
Category: Azure
Tag resources created by a Databricks cluster
A lot of organizations rely on tags for organizing Azure resources. Tags are useful to contain metadata about owners, environment, function and are also very useful to keep track of costs. When you create an Azure Databricks cluster, the service will create a managed resource group on your behalf. This managed resource group has a […]
Custom metrics in Azure monitor
I had a conversation today about custom metrics in Azure. I have worked with customers in the past that have streamed custom metrics into Azure Log Analytics to process them. This was a case where a customer had done more research than me, and had discovered that it’s possible to send custom metrics into Azure […]
Lessons learnt co-authoring a book
I wrote a book! Writing a book is something that stood on my bucket list of things I wanted to achieve, and I hadn’t considered actually doing it year. However, I got a great opportunity to work with Packt on the second edition of the Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure book. I am very glad with […]
Creating nested VM using KVM on Azure
I am working with a customer that has the use case of running nested virtual machines on Azure. They’re using KVM and QEMU today, and I wanted to prove out that it is possible to run VMs using KVM and QEMU on Azure. KVM is a technology that allows you to run full virtual machines […]