Microsoft Azure

Announcing my book Introducing Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr)

It's been a tough year! My blog hasn't received much of my attention. I am sorry, my dear readers. But I am delighted to announce a new book named Introducing

Microservices

Simplify microservices with Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime)

Building distributed applications is a tough job! To get it right you will need lots of tools just to get started. Think about availability, scalability, service discovery, data consistency, developer

.NET

Camera as a Service or how to control your camera with .NET

I have been looking for a way to automate my Nikon DSLR for quite some time. And this is happy me. who managed to automate my camera to capture a

Microsoft Azure

The fall of Envestio - Some technical evidence [UPDATED]

Maybe you have already heard about the issues with the P2P lending platform Envestio. After some noticeable instability, their website went down on 21 January and it's still unavailable as

Microsoft Azure

Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment of SSDT Projects: Part 2, Creating Azure DevOps pipelines

CI/CD for databases is tricky! Let me show you how you can do it by using an SSDT project template and Azure DevOps.

Microsoft Azure

Cloud Frugality: How to reduce >99% of your small-scale semi-static website costs?

Most people believe that cloud is always more expensive than all other options. That is probably true if you don't see how to combine the right offers to achieve more.

Azure App Service

Kudu: The Magic Behind Azure App Service Continuous Deployment

I used to take both gravity and Continuous Deployment to Azure App Service for granted. This has wasted a lot of time executing manual tasks upon deployment. Sometimes you just

Azure App Service

Introducing Ghost 2.x on Azure App Service

Back in October 2017, we decided to make the support for Ghost in Azure better. And it turns out many folks have been using our Ghost-Azure repository to host their

Microsoft Azure

Overcoming the maximum limit for deployments per Resource Group [2020 Updated]

You may have reached a certain point where you cannot make a new deployment against a particular resource group. The error goes like this: Creating the deployment 'Your-Deployment-Name-Goes-Here' would exceed

SQL Server

Continuous Deployment of SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) Projects, Part 1: Make it repeatable and self-sufficient

I will show you how to set up a continuous deployment process for your SQL Database Projects.

General

We agreed to close 2017 and mark it a success!

I want to say thanks to you all! 2017 was great but 2018 is another chance for us to get it right! Given that it is time to make a

General

Merry Christmas!

I look forward to Christmas every year. It is a time to reach out to those we have missed this year. May this cover of White Christmas that we performed

JSTalks

Building intelligent creatures with Microsoft Azure Bot Service and Node.js

JSTalks was a wonderful experience this year. I met so many interesting people who were willing to invest their Saturday in order to master some JavaScript skills. I actually learned

Azure App Service

Ghost 1.x on Azure App Service

Ghost wants to be the next great thing in blogging. I can show you how to deploy it on Microsoft Azure.

Blogging

I can't start a thing without saying...

...Hello World! Welcome! This is my new space on the web! What am I going to talk about here? Lately, I find myself coming up with interesting solutions to uncommon