by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jul 17, 2018 | Azure, VM
Azure reserved virtual machine instances gives the ability to purchase Azure compute resources with up to 43% or more savings for 3-year reservation. Essentially what Microsoft did, was to listen to the customer’s needs for less cost and gave it through this...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jul 17, 2018 | Azure, DevOps
In this post we’ll talk about VSTS and TFS, we will see what their features are, check the versions and the pricing tiers of this service. What is VSTS ? VSTS is a TFS in the Cloud. For someone who already works with TFS on premise it is not difficult to...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jul 6, 2018 | Azure, Container Service (AKS)
With Azure Kubernetes Service you can create, configure and manage a cluster of VMs that can run containerized apps. Below are all the steps that someone needs to follow to create an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Prerequisites Create Service principal client ID...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jun 25, 2018 | DevOps, IT
In this post we will see that in a few simple steps we can create a URL Rewrite to redirect website traffic from http to https. Prerequisites : IIS 7 or higher URL Rewrite module installed. Download URL Rewrite 2.1 module from here. SSL Certificate installed and...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jun 24, 2018 | Azure, NoSQL
In this post, we learn how to measure up Cosmos DB performance, how to monitor this service and finally how we can calculate the consumption. So, performance can be measured in two ways, latency, and throughput. Latency is the waiting time until responding to a given...
