C4: Container, Code, Cloud & Context
Designing intelligent systems, one layer at a time. ~ Nithin Mohan T K
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
As a developer, if you are behind a corporate proxy that assigns an intermediatory self signed SSL certificate to every request to provide secure content filtering as part of cybersecurity measures, I am sure you might have gone through the pain to get it working when working with NodeJS. if you have Admin access to… Continue reading
Some times as a Modern Web Developer you will face some “npm install” as some of the packages would be referring to git/ssh protocol to reference private packages from Git Hub. This would fail when you are behind a corporate proxy. Rewriting the default protocol for GitHub, run the following snippet in your command line… Continue reading
In this world of multiple Web frameworks Microsoft would not want to stop experimenting with new frameworks for Web development. Innovation is a key to Microsoft, doesn’t matter the start later than the React(Facebook) and Angular(Google) , but Microsoft has proven most of the times they are good in developing cutting edge frameworks. That’s how… Continue reading
As a modern day JavaScript developer working with Node.js and NPM, it has been always any developer’s case to clean up local node modules sometimes when local build is broken. It is a tedious tasks to cleanup %appData%\npm-cache to do a fresh install of all the modules again. Depending on the number of modules your… Continue reading
An update from Microsoft Azure says that – As part of the transition from Azure DocumentDB to Azure Cosmos DB, the service and resource names are changing from “Azure DocumentDB” to “Azure Cosmos DB” on June 1, 2018. How does that Impact? When Microsoft introduced Cosmos DB, then have ensured that there was a smooth… Continue reading
What is the difference between Kubernates and Service Fabric? It is a common question today among most of the business stakeholders, infrastructure specialists, and information technology architects. To answer in simpler words, quoting from this Reddit log : Kubernetes manage/orchestrate containers and applications within. ServiceFabric is a… Continue reading
I will start with history: Sometime around 2016, Microsoft launched an IaaS service called Azure Container Service a.k.an ACS serves as a bridge between Azure Ecosystem and existing container ecosystem being used widely by the developer community around the world. It helps as a gateway for infrastructure engineers and developers to manage underlying infrastructure such as… Continue reading
In the last part of this series, we experienced how to create a new wordpress blog instance in Azure App Service. In this part we will learn, how to configure your wordpress instance for publishing. Now that we have WordPress instance deployed in Azure App Service, lets expore the app service instance a bit. Step… Continue reading
All my life I have been a tech saavy person would make my hands dirty trying out all odds available. Here I am going to help you with setting up your own WordPress Blog in Azure App Service. SPOILER ALERT: We will be using a B1 – Basic instance to save the cost. Step 1:… Continue reading
It has been a while I have written something on my blog. I thought of getting started again with a good news that Microsoft Azure team has announced the general availability of Azure Database Services for MySQL and PostgreSQL. In my earlier posts, I have provided some oversight into Preview Availability of these services as… Continue reading