Using Azure Container Instances to complete automation

We looked at Azure Container Instances.

It allows us to launch a container without a cluster and without a VM.

It is ideal for bursting scenarios.

In this article we’ll look at another scenario for container instances:  automation.

The limits of ARM Templates

A great tool for automation...

Event Hubs ingestion performance and throughput

Azure Event Hubs is a data streaming platform as a Service.  It is an ingestion service.

We’ve looked at Event Hubs as the ingestion end of Azure Stream Analytics in two recent articles (here & here).

Here we look at client side performance of different...

Implementing & Automating Azure Stream Analytics Pipeline

In our last article, we set out to build a resilient architecture around streaming events.

In this article, we are going to build the solution.  We are going to use an ARM template which automates deployment.  We will also go through the configuration of different services.

The goal...

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...