I can’t begin to count the amount of times I screwed up a virtual machine that wouldn’t boot anymore. In most cases, that was due to messing up /etc/fstab, which controls which disks get mounted in Linux. If that file is broken, your machine won’t boot anymore. In Azure, there’s an ability to swap the […]
Author: nillsf
Execute arbitrary PowerShell or Azure CLI in an ARM template
ARM templates are a great way to deploy infrastructure to Azure. The issue however is that sometimes, you need to do something that is not supported in a template. Think about executing an Azure Function when the template completes, or updating a config file in blob storage / some table. There is a new preview […]
Setting up a Private Link service as a service provider
Azure Private Link allows you to connect to public services over a private connection. I have already written about using Private Link with blob and the Azure Kubernetes Service. You can also use Private Link to expose your own custom services, and act as a service provider. This means you would build a service in […]
A year of consistent blogging in review
A year ago I started blogging consistently at about a weekly pace. The result, 61 unique posts, most recently 4000 monthly views and the opportunity to co-author a book. via GIPHY In this post I wanted to review this year in blogging, and share what I learnt. And I hope this motivates you to start […]
Confusion matrix, accuracy, recall, precision, false positive rate and F-scores explained
When building a machine learning model, it’s important to measure the results of your model. Typically, you split a dataset into a training dataset and a test dataset. The training dataset is used to train your model, while the test dataset is used to measure the performance of your model. A commonly used method to […]