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 […]
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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 […]
VNET Service Endpoints
A long awaited functionality of multiple of our PaaS services was to link them to a virtual network. At Ignite, Microsoft announced Service Endpoints. This finally met this popular request, at least for storage accounts and SQL DBs. Endpoints allow you to secure your critical Azure PaaS resources to only your virtual networks. Traffic from […]
FUSE adapter for blob storage
Earlier this week, Microsoft launched a new Linux driver into public preview: the FUSE adapter for blob storage. Obviously this is an open source driver (hosted on github). The driver allows you to mount blob storage into your VMs and read/write from blob directly. What does this mean? It is a very easy way to […]