Finding out about performance issues and collecting metrics on the usage of your app is important. Add Application Insights to your apps and let the reports tell you what is wrong and allow you to track all kinds of dimensions. Microsoft provides several SDK’s for this, for all types of frameworks and languages. In this post, we will look at
Read moreOctober 1st, Pamela and I will be speaking at the Techorama Event in the Netherlands. We hope to see you there! Link to the event agenda: https://sched.co/TH5p Microsoft and Java, a love story. We are not talking about a summer love or a head over heels thing here: this is unconditional true love. Pamela and Yuri will share their take
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What are we trying to accomplish? Azure runs a very decent Kubernetes service these days. I have used it as the main infrastructure in a couple of projects and am quite impressed. Impressed enough to even suggest it as the target platform for our largest projects 😊 So let’s take a typical Java project, a project consisting of one or
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Say you want to use an Azure DevOps pipeline to build your containerized app. This scenario is of course supported and you would leverage all the built-in stuff (built-in container image, default container tasks, hosted build agent, etc.). You can even choose between the UI or YAML to configure the build pipeline. But what if you cannot work with the
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Part 2! In a previous post, I discussed the options for running Java workloads on Azure. Now it is time to discover some of the choices Azure offers to our software engineers! Developing Java applications Sourcecode Application consist of source code that needs to be centrally stored and managed. Azure has many options for storing sourcecode, but also for working
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Azure is Microsofts cloud platform. It is the home of Service Apps, Logic Apps, cloud storage, Kubernetes Service and provides the foundation for VSTS (now Azure DevOps), Office 365 and loads of other services and tools. But not only for .NET based services and applications. Todays Microsoft provides options for Linux developers, OSX teams, Docker containers, Python code, Node.js and
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