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 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...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jun 8, 2018 | App Service, Azure
API Apps are web services (like Web Apps). You construct code that will be deployed on Azure and there are applications designed to call these API Apps. On API Apps there is no UI (User Interface), its main responsibility is to manage data. API Apps Benefits When...