Azure Arc is part of Microsoft’s vision for a successful hybrid cloud deployments and management. Arc enables consistent management of your IT estate across multi-cloud, hybrid and edge deployments. What Arc enables is the use of Azure management and policy tools to manage and secure your IT estate. Currently, there are three solutions announced that […]
Taking the Open Service Mesh for a test drive
It caugt me a little by surprise last week when Microsoft released a Service Mesh: We are beyond excited to introduce Open Service Mesh (OSM), a lightweight and extensible #servicemesh that implements @SMI_spec and runs on @kubernetesio @EnvoyProxy! Check out what we’ve been up to here:https://t.co/l6fy4OUorO — Open Service Mesh (@openservicemesh) August 5, 2020 The […]
Adding x-axis to matplotlib plots in Jupyter notebooks
I’ve blogged before about how I’m doing some of my own data analysis on the COVID-19 numbers. One thing that I didn’t like about my graphs was that they didn’t contain an x-axis, which made them a little bit harder to read. In this (very quick) blog post I’ll show you how to add an […]
Using NFS on Azure blob and some performance tests
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 […]
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 […]