This is going to be a short post explaining how to manually set a DNS server in Ubuntu 18.04. #Edit the following configuration file: sudo vi /etc/systemd/resolved.conf #Add the DNS server you want to use: [Resolve] DNS=192.168.48.44 #Write changes and close file (:wq!) #Restart local DNS service sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved.service #Query your local DNS […]
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How I keep costs in check for my Azure subscription
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 […]
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 […]