Kunal Babre

GitHub

GitHub Connect

GitHub provides everything an enterprise needs to enable organisations improve developer velocity and promote collaboration while staying secure end-to-end. As an enterprise you can leverage fully managed SaaS GitHub offering with GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC) and/or have a self-hosted installation of GitHub known as GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES). This

Azure

Densely packing DBs with Azure SQL

Azure SQL Databases (or Managed Instance) are great options over self-hosting and managing SQL Server, there are several advantages for example it drastically reduces management overhead of having to manage the Virtual Machine, HA setup etc. However, when it comes to hosting a large number of databases for example as

Cloud

Calculating availability with cloud service SLAs

‌‌When designing a cloud solution, it is beneficial to have a good understanding of service-level agreements (SLAs) cloud providers offer for individual services and how this impacts your overall system availability. For example, a service offering * 99.9% uptime is expected to be down for 43 mins 47 seconds monthly

Cloud

Baseline Your Cloud Operations

Cloud migration and transformation projects are inherently complex and very often challenged with tight deadlines and limited resources. This often leads to weak implementation or even de-prioritization of activities like automation, DevOps processes and end-to-end monitoring and more. Operational Excellence is key to ensure workloads deployed in the cloud can

Azure

Chaos Engineering Resources

Failure in the cloud is a reality, still less than 25% of business are prepared for such outages. It is inevitable systems fail; things burn. The idea behind Chaos Engineering proving system can withstand failure by testing it, causing controlled harm to check and fix any potential issues. This blog

Azure

Lock access to your services only from Azure Front Door

Azure Front Door (AFD) offers a global secure entry-point to the cloud. AFD has multiple features like WAF/CDN/Application acceleration at Microsoft’s edge etc. However, AFD does not support Private IP as a backend. In this article, I will cover a few approaches on restricting traffic to your

Azure

Simple Azure Application Deployment Patterns

When it comes to migrating apps to Azure, one of the common asks I see is - hey I got a static web app with some .NET based WCF/REST services as a backend using SQL databases. How can I deploy the App in Azure and design it to be

Azure

Upgrading and Patching AKS

Upgrades: In general, with any upgrade/update there is always likelihood things might fail so your team need to have multiple strategies, here are few suggestions that 1. Test upgrades on non-prod first (must) 2. AKS Upgrade API: The in-place upgrade should ideally work (easiest), one risk here is sometimes

Azure

Monitoring in Azure

Let us start with a question - looking at the dashboard about - is the car ready to drive? I am sure (at least hope!) the answer no. Since you can see a few issues like the door is open, the hand brake light is on etc. Can you imagine

Azure

Azure Governance

We always hear you got to have good governance  in place when implementing cloud projects. At high level this is what we refer to when we talk about Azure Governance * Resource Organisation: Where do I deploy, how do I group and identify * Resource Security: Who can access, how can I

Azure

Azure VM Bandwidth and IOPS

When it comes to fine-tuning Network and Storage performance of Virtual Machines here are some things to consider Networking (Bandwidth) 1. Accelerated Networking reduces network latency, improves throughput, and decrease CPU utilization of a Virtual Machines. If you need above deploy select supported Virtual Machine SKUs always enable this feature.

Azure

Azure Lighthouse

Recently one of Microsoft's strategic partner I work with was looking for a solution to deploy and manage their solution for 1000's of their customers (all in different tenancy). Azure Lighthouse, seemed like a match made in heaven - a single plane of glass to view

Kubernetes

Kubernetes Announcements at Build 2020

Build 2020, had a lot of exciting announcements. Here is a quick cheat sheet of all the key announcement related to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Generally Available 1. Windows Server Containers Support for AKS 2. Private Link and Private Cluster Support, i.e. ability to isolate Kubernetes API server within

Azure

Long-Running Jobs with Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus is a messaging service available as a Platform-as-a-Service in the cloud and is intended for enterprise applications that require advance messaging features like transactions, ordering, duplicate detection and more. Scenario: I got a job that takes more than 5 minutes to complete, how can I keep the

Docker

Modernising with Containers

In this article, we will explore some reasons to consider containers and help you get started with it. Why Containers? Gartner predicts that by 2022, more than 75% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production Just because Gartner says it does not mean we should do it,

Load-balancing in Azure

Here is a short article to help to demystify the options available to load-balance your applications in Azure. Scenarios 1. Protocol is the service served over HTTP/S (Web workload) or is Non-HTTP/S. 2. Global vs Regional i.e. the service I am trying to load balance is it

Azure

Azure Migrate Server Assessment for your VMware Environment

You decided to get started on your migration journey and want to start by running assessments, here are two things you will need to get it setup 1. Server Discovery This process helps you discover the inventory of apps, and roles/features running on your on-premises machines helps you to

Azure

Cloud Migration with Azure Migrate

Are you planning to migrate your workloads to Azure? Then I will highly recommend learning about an Azure Migrate tool from Microsoft. Azure Migrate brings all the first party and lot of third-party tools that will help you migrate servers (windows and Linux), web applications, databases, Virtual Desktops, and large

Modernising a single-tenant .Net Framework app with AKS

The example above is a way to modernisation of a single-tenant .Net Framework application (with limited changes to the code). The example above consist of WebApp, API and a background service that is deployed individually for every single customer. These can easily be run on App Services as a WebApp,

Azure

APIM Consumption

A short POC to demo APIM Consumption with policies to make a call to the custom backend authorization server to grab a token and inject them in backend API calls. You can find the ARM template sample on GitHub here. Here is a short video that shows how to apply

Azure

The big serverless announcements for Microsoft Ignite 2019

A lot of exciting announcements this year at Microsoft Ignite here is a quick 1 min summary. * Premium function plan now generally available - helps avoid the cold start problem enabling you to build truly event driven systems,  also allows you to take advantage of premium features required for hi-performance

Azure

Alternatives to App Service Environment

Update [20/11/2020]: ASE V3 is coming out - there are no stamp fees! - see more here The Azure App Service Environment (ASE) provides a fully isolated and dedicated environment for securely running App Service apps at high scale. You can scale your application to 100 of the

Kubernetes

Preparing for Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Kubernetes is more than just the latest buzzword. In case you fancy getting certified here are some tips to get you started. Before we go into any details set the date and book your exam giving yourself at least a month is a good idea -  commitment helps! Tip 1:

Azure

Security and Disaster Recovery for Azure Blobs

Azure storage is one of the foundational building block services of Azure. All the Azure and Microsoft services store data directly or indirectly using Azure Storage. It is a hyper scale service that holds >120 trillion objects and servers with over 19 million transactions per second that is highly

Agile

Is Agile Fragile ?

A stitch in time saves nine Importance of clear, unambiguous requirements cannot be understated. A clear well understood requirement is several times quicker to deliver than long vague requirement. Defining clear requirements needs commitment and discipline. Often we jump to developing a solution before understanding the requirement; sometime we incorrectly