Let’s assume you have a .net web api application and you want to access the value of a nested property in your application settings. If you want to override this property value in your Azure App Service you need be careful how you will declare the key for your nested application setting under Configuration section as there is a small...

Recently, I started playing around with Terraform and I am very excited how easy and fast it is to provision new resources, especially when you want to try out things. And when they are not needed anymore, you can easily delete all the resources with just a single command. So, let’s get started with the basics. What is Infrastructure as...

During the summer I was fortunate enough to take part in Summer in Greece Festival, a five-day event by Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors in which MVPs, MCTs, and Microsoft Employees will present and deep dive to Microsoft technologies. My talk was about a Durable Functions, an extension of Azure Functions that lets you write ...

One thing I tend to forget is how powerful azure cli is and how many things can be done way faster through this tool. So, for example, if you want to delete all files in an Azure Storage Account at once, a fast and easy way to do just that is by using the delete-batch command from Azure CLI. Run...

One thing I tend to forget is how powerful azure cli is and how many things can be done way faster through this tool. So, for example, if you want to delete all files in an Azure Storage Account at once, a fast and easy way to do just that is by using the delete-batch command from Azure CLI. Run...

On the 25th of April I had the chance to organize the Global Azure Greece 2020 event, the first virtual one of its kind, and also deliver a session thereat. I was one out of 248 international and 18 Greek speakers that took part in this huge online event. I started organizing the Global Azure bootcamp in Greece in 2016...

On April 25, 2020, all communities will come together once again in the seventh great Global Azure event! Each user group organizes their own one to three day Azure event the way they see fit and how it works for their members. The result is that thousands of people will get together to learn about Azure and join together online under the social ...

During AzureHeads 23rd meetup, I delivered an introductory presentation about Azure API management, what is it, how someone can get started and then I showcase a set of features in Azure Portal like: connecting APIs with Azure Functions and import APIs through Swagger developer portal prevention of API usage spikes using throttling authentication ...

Azure Availability Zones is a high-availability offering that protects your applications and data from datacenter failures. Availability Zones are unique physical locations within an Azure…Continue readingMove an Azure VM to an Availability Zone

Let’s assume you have started experimenting with Azure Functions and, for your first app, you have chosen the Azure Portal as your development environment. You have created a new Azure Function by clicking the Plus icon next to your Azure Function name, selected In-portal from the first step of the wizard, and from the second screen you ...

In this post we will talk about all the necessary steps to build and deploy an Angular web application to a static website hosting container in Azure Storage using Azure DevOps. Step 1. Setup a GitHub Repository & commit a sample Angular App To start with, you need to create a new repository in GitHub and push an Angular application...

* AI business solutions: https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/solutions/practice-areas/artificial-intelligence * AI platform: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/ai-platform/ at the section «Open and comprehensive platform» (scroll down) and see the three tabs AI tools/AI frameworks/AI related infrastructure * Azure (cloud) Machine Learning: ...

Azure Storage is a cloud storage solution for data storage scenarios and one key service, among others, is Azure Blobs, a scalable object store for text and binary data. A main use is to upload files to it, either as a long term backup solution, or as a way to serve documents, images and videos directly to a browser. To do so, you...

The information you send on the Internet is passed from computer to computer to get to the destination server. The least you can do to provide privacy, critical security and data integrity for both your websites and your users’ personal information is to have your application secured under an SSL certificate. SSL providers need to set up a ...

In this post, we will showcase the necessary steps to follow in order to de-associate your azure account from any subscription you have joined in the past and you no longer use. Till recently, in order to do so, you had to ask the admin of the subscription to perform this task, however, now, you can do it all by...

HTTP/2 is a major revision of the HTTP network protocol used by the World Wide Web and comes with a promise to make our applications faster, simpler, and more robust by allowing us to undo many of the HTTP/1.1 workarounds previously done within our applications and address these concerns within the transport layer itself. In this post, we will ...

In this tutorial we will use Computer Vision service to analyze an image and determine the accent and dominant color and whether the image is black & white or colored. Step 1. Create Computer Vision Service Let’s start by creating the Computer Vision API service. To do so, head over to Azure portal, click on Create Resource link, select ...

Global Azure Bootcamp 2018 – 21 Απριλίου 2018 Μια μέρα αφιερωμένη στο Cloud και το Microsoft Azure! 16+ ομιλητές, 3 παράλληλα sessions κι οι κοινότητες πληροφορικής azureheads.gr, autoexec.gr, sqlschool.gr, dotnetzone.gr, συναντώνται στον πολυχώρο της Τεχνόπολις στο Γκάζι για μια μέρα γεμάτη Azure! Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στην σελίδα του ...

Something new in Azure App Service’s overview blade, is the addition of a new tool for diagnosing and solving problems. It makes it easier to distinguish issues between your code and platform related problems, and provides some quick solutions, tailored to the problems you might experience. You get a view of the health of your application ...

Something new in Azure App Service’s overview blade, is the addition of a new tool for diagnosing and solving problems. It makes it easier to distinguish issues between your code and platform related problems, and provides some quick solutions, tailored to the problems you might experience. You get a view of the health of your application ...

In this post, we are going to explore the steps needed to easily monitor an angular application for performance and usage, using Azure Application Insights. Azure Application Insights Azure Application Insights is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for web developers that allows you to detect and diagnose issues and ...

In a previous post we talked about how you can create a simple powershell runbook to automate tasks in your Azure account, such as starting up or shutting down a virtual machine based on a user-defined schedule. In this post, we are going to demonstrate how easy it is to create a webhook, in order to call your Runbook through an...

One of the great things in Cloud computing is the ability to use resources whenever you want them and pay only only for what you are using. In this post, we are going to explore how you may create a schedule to automatically shut down and start up a virtual machine running on Azure, using Azure Automation, based on a...

In this post, we are going to explore the necessary steps to build a cluster on Azure Container Service and then setup RabbitMQ using Kubernetes as orchestrator and helm as package manager. First things first, let’s briefly introduce the services we are going to use. What is Azure Container Service? Azure Container Service (ACS) allows you ...

In this page you will find tools, related to Networking, to make your Azure journey easier and more fun. Azure Speed Test A simple web tool that measures the latency between you and Azure Datacenters, to suggest which might be fastest for your location. Fiddler (Telerik) A classic tool to debug and monitor traffic between your PC and the ...