Recently, Microsoft announced that they’re enabling the NFS protocol on top of blob storage. This is growing the strategy that started with ADLS gen 2, which put the HDFS protocol on top of blob storage. I am working on a number of projects where this support would be helpful for customers. It’s still early days […]
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How I’m doing my own COVID-19 data analysis using Jupyter, Python, Pandas and Matplotlib
Before I start this blog post, let me say this: I’m not a doctor, not a scientist and not a public policy maker. I want to express my support to all of those impacted by COVID-19, and don’t want this blog post to sound soulless. I’m a tech enthusiast, who likes numbers, which is why […]

Maintaining client IP on a Service in the Azure Kubernetes Service
Did you know that if you’re running a service in Kubernetes without additional configuration that you lose the client’s IP address? If you’re answer was ‘no’, you’re in the same boat I was last weekend. Tim Hockin from Google made a nice presentation about connecting into a Kubernetes cluster that opened my eyes to this […]

Run Kubernetes clusters locally using kind
How often have you created a new Kubernetes cluster to ‘test something new’? How often have you created a new Kubernetes cluster to start learning about new functionalities? In my case, I do this pretty frequently. I very frequently spin up (and down) Azure Kubernetes clusters. This approach comes with two downsides however: it takes […]

How to automatically start the Docker daemon on WSL2
I like running Docker containers in WSL2. However, one piece of nuisance for me has been that the Docker daemon doesn’t automatically start, and there’s no ‘easy’ way to start it automatically. Since WSL2 doesn’t run systemd, you cannot use systemd to automatically start Docker as you typically would in a Linux system. In this […]