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...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jun 22, 2018 | Azure, Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is a DaaS (Database As A Service) cloud offering by Microsoft. This service has specific characteristics. Azure is responsible for database common administration tasks, hypervisors, networking, bare metal hardware etc. The users pay according to...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jun 14, 2018 | Azure, Security, Storage
Microsoft provides the ability to encrypt VMs VHD files. This can be achieved by the Azure Key Vault service. But, before we start, let’s find an explanation about Azure Key Vault and what it does. Azure Key Vault is a vault that contains keys, secrets and it is...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jun 8, 2018 | App Service, Azure
In a previous post, I was trying to explain what Azure API App is. In this one, I show you the steps to deploy your first Azure API App. Create API App From the Azure Portal click Create a resource and search for “API App” and click Create. Azure...
