This post outlines basic overview on Docker containers , what benefits does it brings in using in your environment and what options we have for deploying them to Azure. What is Docker? Docker is self-service entity that can run on cloud or on-premise that can be used to host and run your applications. Docker basically contains two concepts. 1. Docker Images It simply a file, where you package...
Data driven agriculture with AZURE Farm beats
As the son of a farmer, I was always thinking about using technology to help farmers to do affordable, profitable and sustainable farming. Lot of farming is based on guesswork. The decisions like when to water, when to apply pesticides, nutrients and fertilizers are based on guesswork. What if farmer uses his knowledge with data and data driven insights, it can be more productive, cost effective...
AZURE Multi Factor Authentication – deep dive
Usernames and Passwords are no longer strong enough to protect sensitive information. This post outlines different ways you can protect on-premises and cloud based applications using Microsoft Multi Factor Authentication (MFA). It also explains deployment, configuration options in-depth, API interaction for developers to integrate MFA with existing systems. Additional security never should be a...
DevOps overview with Microsoft Azure
This post outlines the steps that you can follow to implement DevOps in Azure pipeline. The steps includes setting up an application, creating continuous integration, continuous delivery and release pipelines in Azure environment. What is DevOps? DevOps is the union of people, process, and tools to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users. Most people feel that DevOps is just...
Remote debugging AZURE app service web app
This post outline the steps to debug the AZURE app service using Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio 2015. Before you start remote debugging the application make sure you deployed your web app to azure using debug settings not release. Step 1 Enable remote debug and visual studio version for your app service web app in AZURE portal Step2 You can attach the debugger in two way one is from cloud...
Connection issue with SQL Azure
Today, I got the following error message when connecting to SQL Azure from our dev environment Don’t panic follow the below trouble shooting steps. 1. Check your Microsoft Azure portal firewall settings. You should add your client ip address range as following 2. If you still get the same error message then double check the way that your are connecting to server using client tool example: if...
Misconceptions about Microsoft Cloud
This post outlines some of the misconceptions around cloud computing and also lists the facts and what you need to know about cloud computing. Cloud changes the way that we do our business and when change happens to organization and individuals sometimes there is some uncertainty there. The challenge is “Cloud†is often misunderstood by many customers. When it first comes around year 2010 the...
Microsoft Codename Cloud Numerics
Microsoft Codename “Cloud Numerics†is a new .NET programming framework which can be used to perform intensive numeric computations on large distributed data sets. If you are some one who works with large data sets, extracting the data and forming and simulating the models then you might need more computing power and memory.