I am very privileged to get an Azure subscription at my disposal. This does however come with some responsibilities, as (even inside of Microsoft) Azure costs are cross-charged. So I try to keep my bill minimal. I wanted to share some of my own best practices to keep costs under control in my personal testing […]
Author: nillsf
The speed of RAM!
I’ve been playing around with writing some data to RAM lately, and I’ve been hugely impressed. Now, let’s start with the beginning: everybody knows RAM is faster than SSD, which is faster than spinning disk. Why was I so impressed with this test? Well simply, I’ve never considered actually writing files to RAM. I have […]
Going in through the Azure Frontdoor
Ignite was held last week, and there were a bunch of amazing announcements from our product teams. The list would be to big to list here. Microsoft did release an e-book with a list of all the announcements. You can read about all announcements here. One of the updates that caught my eye was the […]
Istio – Meetup report
Yesterday, I had to privilege to attend a meetup on Istio, presented by Dan Ciruli, the PM for Istio at Google. It was a great presentation on an interesting topic; and I wanted to share my take-aways from the meetup via this blog post. What follows is (after my own introduction to the topic) mainly […]
Azure Files integration with Azure Backup
Azure Files offers a managed SMB 3.0 file share. Inside Azure Files, it was possible already to take file share snapshots to have a backup/retention solution. With the integration with Azure Backup, managing those snapshots has become a lot easier. The functionality is in public preview right now, so you can go ahead and try […]