Konstantinos Pantos

If you’ve spent any real time running workloads on Azure Container Apps, you’ve probably hit this moment: you open the Console blade to poke around inside a running replica, or you fire off az containerapp exec, and instead of a shell prompt you get a spinner, a cryptic JSON error, or nothing […]

In the last post, I covered how GitHub Codespaces and the Dev Container spec eliminate the “new machine, new project, an hour lost to installs” problem by letting you describe a development environment once and have it built consistently, in the cloud or locally via Docker. There’s a layer […]

The problem nobody talks about until they hit it You’ve locked down your Azure Container Registry. Public network access is disabled, private endpoints are in place, and your network diagram looks the way your security team wants it to look. Then someone runs an az acr build or docker build, and […]

Every Azure engineer knows the ritual. New laptop, new project, or just a new team you’ve joined — and before you write a single line of Bicep or run your first az command, you’re an hour deep into installing the Azure CLI, fighting a PATH variable, discovering your Bicep extension is out […]

Azure Availability Zones is a high-availability offering that protects your applications and data from datacenter failures. Availability Zones are unique physical locations within an Azure region. Each zone is made up of one or more datacenters equipped with independent power, cooling, and […]

While running SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines, it is recommended that you continue using the same database performance tuning options that are applicable to SQL Server in on-premises server environment. However, the performance of a relational database in a public cloud depends on many factors […]

It’s been quite some time since I had the chance to speak publicly and I had really missed it so when I was given the opportunity to talk at this year’s Global Azure Bootcamp, I really jumped on it. So if you’d like to learn a few things on building Always-On, Hyper-Scalable […]

When running many services at large scale, you rely very heavily on telemetry to help you understand what’s happening across your services and to detect, diagnose and repair problems. Application Insights Analytics, is a near realtime log analytics platform for interactive data exploration that […]

As a developer you’re probably familiar with the pain of troubleshooting web applications. In Azure App Services you have a rich set of different tools to help you make this troubleshooting a lot easier. In this post though we are going to discuss the latest addition of these tools, the […]

The Microsoft Azure Storage Data Movement Library in an open source library designed for high-performance uploading, downloading and copying Azure Storage Blob and File. This library is based on the core data movement framework that powers AzCopy. The library can help you take full advantage of […]