by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jul 17, 2018 | Azure, DevOps
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 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... 
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jul 6, 2018 | Azure, Container Service (AKS)
Reading Time: 5 minutesWith 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... 
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jun 24, 2018 | Azure, NoSQL
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 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... 
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jun 22, 2018 | Azure, Azure SQL Database
Reading Time: 3 minutesAzure 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... 
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jun 14, 2018 | Azure, Security, Storage
Reading Time: 4 minutesMicrosoft 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... 
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jun 8, 2018 | App Service, Azure
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 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...
