It’s already been about 6 months since Microsoft announced Dapr. Dapr, or Distributed Application Runtime, is an open source project with the goal to enable developers to write microservices. That’s a nice goal, and in this blog we’ll explore what this means. Since its launch, I’ve heard more and more about Dapr. As with every […]
A day in the life of a Cloud Solution Architect in times of COVID-19
A read a blog post last week that explained the day in the life of a software developer at Slack. I really enjoyed reading about somebody else’s work schedule, and decided to share a day in my life. I’m currently a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft in Silicon Valley. I work with a number of […]
Tag resources created by a Databricks cluster
A lot of organizations rely on tags for organizing Azure resources. Tags are useful to contain metadata about owners, environment, function and are also very useful to keep track of costs. When you create an Azure Databricks cluster, the service will create a managed resource group on your behalf. This managed resource group has a […]
Custom metrics in Azure monitor
I had a conversation today about custom metrics in Azure. I have worked with customers in the past that have streamed custom metrics into Azure Log Analytics to process them. This was a case where a customer had done more research than me, and had discovered that it’s possible to send custom metrics into Azure […]
Lessons learnt co-authoring a book
I wrote a book! Writing a book is something that stood on my bucket list of things I wanted to achieve, and I hadn’t considered actually doing it year. However, I got a great opportunity to work with Packt on the second edition of the Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure book. I am very glad with […]