Miha Jakovac Coding and Development
Load testing your web applications and services is an essential part of modern web development. There are many tools that can help you with that, for example Azure DevOps or Apache JMeter. I am about to show you another tool, that you can run from your Windows PC. The tool is calledWebsurge and it’s build…
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This year we went to the Microsoft Ignite conference in Amsterdam, which was from 19th to 20th of March. It’s a big conference with thousands of attendees and a lot of great talks. There were few tracks available for us, we choose the “Build your applications for the cloud” on the first day and “Operating…
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If you are writing and using ARM templates as as a base of your infrastructure as code (IaC) principle, then the next few lines might be interesting to you. If you are new to IaC read this or if you are new to ARM templates read here. We are using ARM templates with Azure DevOps…
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Azure CosmosDB is a scalable, distributed, highly responsive and cloud based database service. It boasts with low latency and pricing based on the usage. You are billed on hourly basis by provisioning total Request units (RU) per second for Azure CosmosDB database or collection. RUs can be described as a rate-based currency for throughput presented…
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Development and testing of Windows Services is a bit cumbersome. You can not run them from Visual Studio as you can Windows Form or Web application, but there is a trick that can help to improve the development experience. Normally I have some scripts to install, uninstall, start and stop Windows service. There is also…
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When we are releasing software to different environments through our release pipelines, we usually want to mark that in our monitoring system. Normally that is a time-stamp or annotation and can help us diagnosing performance issues if they arise. We extensively use Application Insights for monitoring and logging system and Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS) for…
read more We use Azure Storage service with most of our cloud projects. It offers a convenient way to store binary objects like images, videos, documents, etc and is very flexible with redundancy and more. Azure Storage is very useful in combination with Azure Functions, where you need to run the function when a file is saved…
read more As a tech head and a recreational cyclist I was thrilled when looking at the latest developments in the bike smart trainer world. The idea to connect bike trainer with PC and run a game like Zwift or Road grand tours beta is very appealing :). But I never owned a smart trainer until now. I…
read more We all do some sort of logging on our servers, may be log files, database, Application Insights, etc. But that won’t do us much good, if there are no active measures set against them. I am talking about automatic alerts, which will allow us to react quickly in case of performance issues or failures. That’s…
read more Welcome back. In this post I will continue the discussion about the Azure Log Service, which builds on-top of Shipping logs to Azure and pre-parsing logs. You are welcome to read them first. Now I will write about adding a custom performance counter monitor to Microsoft monitoring agent on Windows Server machine. But first a…
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