Tagged articles - Azure

Creating a copy of an existing Virtual Machine on Azure is not really that much straight forward as you might think. The proper way as described in the documentation is to "generalize" Virtual Machine which puts it into a state where it can be used as a template for creating new Virtual Machines. Unfortunately this way of creating a clone of VM on Azure makes the source VM inaccessible...read more

Azure WebJobs are a great way to run background processes for your Web application on hosted on Azure WebApp. Althought Microsoft does not yet provide Visual Studio project templates for .NET Core (it only has built in project template for .NET framework 4.x) it is still possible to develop WebJob using .NET Core and run in on a WebApp...read more

WebJobs are a great way to run recurrent background tasks that support your application. They come as a part of Azure App Service/Web App serverless model...read more

Times of writing your HttpClient setup to call REST API endpoint are over. It is just to much of repetitive code and taking care of the endpoints of the REST API service...read more

Code analysis is and important part of application development. It can point to a potential bottle necks or code cluttering during the development process...read more

Swagger is a great way to document you REST API endpoints and reduce the need for communication, item spent and the cost for supporting the consumers of you APIs. Apart from providing the info about the endpoints, models, validation it can also display the data of the product...read more

Serverless model is becoming more and more popular everyday and all major cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GoogleCloud are providing their own implementation of serverless cloud computing model. As more and more companies are shifting their infrastructure to cloud, serverless model becomes more and more popular mostly because it's cost effectiveness, easy setup and out of the box scaling and orchestration...read more

There is a big buzz about AI these days and major Cloud vendors like Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud are competing to bring better products to their platforms for variety of AI tasks. One of these services is speech recognition and generating transcription text from the audio. I recently worked on a project which involved transcribing large amount of daily generated audio recordings...read more

Recently I wrote an article on how to Send data to Azure Log Analytics from C# code which is demonstrating pushing data from your code to Microsoft Azure Log Analytics and simple quering the data from the Log Analytics. Azure Log Analytics are extremely helpful for storing application logs because they provide transformation of the raw data into queriable columns, you can easily query your logs stored in Log Analytics and export to Excel format if you need to share the data or you just want to make some offline data analysis. ...read more

Azure as a part of Microsoft Operations Management Suite provides data collection and insight services inside Azure cloud platform. It allows you to: ...read more

Hether your website requires SSL secured connection through HTTPS or not, it is even recommended by Google to use SSL for your website. Starting from 2005 Google page ranking takes into consideration whether your page has SSL certificate installed and serer content thorough HTTPS. If you are hosting your website on IIS, you have some built in tols in Internet Information Service (IIS) manager, for SSL certificate operations but they are pretty limited and most of the time confusing to use. ...read more