Docker multi-stage build

I recently came across a really nice feature of Docker Build and wanted to share it.

Building a Docker Image often requires to build binaries.  In my case I needed to build a .NET core application.  You might need to build a Java App or any other types of...

Cosmos DB Stored Procedures - handling continuation

I’ve recently did some work involving Stored Procedures in Cosmos DB.

There are a few techniques to learn when our stored procedures handle large data sets.  It is all about continuation.

In this article, we’ll look at how to build a robust and scalable stored procedure.

We’ll start with...

Cosmos DB Configuration Management

I often found the need to automate Cosmos DB deployments.

I like to have users run an ARM template and be ready to go.  Automation is key component to repeatability.  It enables automated testing and increase agility in many other ways.

ARM Templates don’t go beyond a database account.

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...