Choosing Between Kappa and Lambda Architecture During my tenure as a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, I had the privilege of engaging with a diverse range of clients spanning various domains. one sought my expertise in crafting an architecture design for efficient Data Processing. A critical aspect of this endeavor…

A guide to file layout, isolation, and locking for Terraform projects — Update, November 17, 2016: We took this blog post series, expanded it, and turned it into a book called Terraform: Up & Running! Update, July 8, 2019: We’ve updated this blog post series for Terraform 0.12 and released the 2nd edition of Terraform: Up & Running! Update, Sep 28, 2022…

I’ve done a lot of Durable Functions hackfests with my customers. I noticed that every time I explain the same things to them. I’d like to share the seven tips when you start Durable Functions. Tip 1. Class and responsibility Tip 2. Use Storage Emulator Tip 3. Orchestrator should be…

We’re finally almost at the end of the training program, and this week we got to look at how we can manage an organization's active directory on Azure. We looked at several aspects of identity management and controls that can be put in place when it comes to ensuring users…

Recently, I came across a need of pushing Azure service health events to other platforms, could be any 3rd party monitoring services. Since this is not supported natively, I thought about using Azure function app to periodically query the needed information. On top of that, users could write other codes/scripts…

Welcome back guys, this is in continuation to the last part on Azure Active Directory. In this part, we will see Azure Active Directory in the azure portal. Before we go ahead with the features and the tiers for Azure Active Directory, we will look at some terms used in…

Azure function is a great tool when it comes to a specific job using your choice of code, without worrying much about provisioning underlying infrastructure. It can run and fulfill a stand-alone task, which makes Azure function very flexible and independent of language, process, pipeline, etc. …