We came upon an interesting challenge recently. Let’s have a stream of events pouring in. The source is unimportant. Hundreds, peeking at thousands, of events per second. We need to update a table in Azure SQL with a summary of the events. Let’s just assume the events are about widgets. So each event contain a … More Taming the fire hose: Azure Stream Analytics
In Part 1, we discussed how, by default, replica sets in AKS aren’t highly available. In this article, we conclude the discussion. We propose an approach to deploy highly available replica sets. The objective of this article isn’t to propose a novel way to deploy replica sets in AKS. We see it as an opportunity … More More reliable Replica Sets in AKS – Part 2
Availability is a core architecture attribute often sought after. We’ve taken a look at Azure Managed Kubernetes Cluster (AKS) here. In this article (part 1), we’re going to experiment and prove that replica set aren’t “highly available” by default. In part 2 , we’re going to look at how to architect replica sets in Azure … More More reliable Replica Sets in AKS – Part 1
We’ve recently looked at Azure AKS (Kubernetes Cluster Managed Services). We’ve looked at how to create a Kubernetes Cluster with 3 lines of Azure CLI. With this we are able to interact with the cluster & deploy containers. There is a bit of “auto magic” happening in there. In this article we will focus on … More Understanding identities in Azure AKS / Kubernetes
A few weeks ago we wrote an article about how to get started with Docker in Azure. This time we’ll do it with Kubernetes using Azure AKS Service. What is Kubernetes? From https://kubernetes.io/: Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. In the online documentation overview, Kubernetes is further … More Get Started with Kubernetes (AKS) in Azure
Digital Transformation is all the rage. It’s a little like virtue: everybody is rooting for it but few can actually articulate what it is! I recently found some nice theoretical framework which simplifies its explanation. We will first refer to that theoretical framework. We will then articulate how it applies to digital transformation. Core vs … More Digital Transformation – Investing in the Core
When we looked at an overview of Container Services in Azure, we took a look at Azure Container Registry (ACR). A Docker Registry holds Docker images in repositories. Any agent can build & push those images. Nodes running Docker containers can then pull those images. The main advantages of using Azure Docker Registry (ACR) are … More Azure Container Registry – Getting Started
