Taming the fire hose: Azure Stream Analytics

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...

More reliable Replica Sets in AKS - Part 2

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...

More reliable Replica Sets in AKS - Part 1

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...

Understanding identities in Azure AKS / Kubernetes

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...

Get Started with Kubernetes (AKS) in Azure

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...