Paweł Bulwan

Cosmos DB can be configured with a Geo-Redundancy feature enabled. In such situation, it is supposed to replicate data to multiple regions. We should also be able to read from all of those regions. In the Azure Portal, this feature comes with a nice visualization in a form of a map: Looking at the above … Read more

What is Query Acceleration Query acceleration is a feature in Azure Blob Storage that can be handy if you use Data Lake (or general Blob Storage) to keep your data. The feature allows server-side filtering of data, assuming it’s in one of the supported formats, like JSON or CSV. It can result in limiting the … Read more

A few weeks ago, we started using SonarCloud in some of our .NET projects. We wanted to evaluate if this continuous code quality tool is something that would help us in our daily work, or rather annoy developers with loads of minor issues and false alarms. We already have ReSharper licenses, so using another tool … Read more

New releases of .NET often come with features that I really like to use in my daily developer work. Therefore, I like to keep projects I work on at the most recent stable version of .NET. Soon we’ll officially have stable versions .NET 6, released along with C# 10 and Visual Studio 2022. I like … Read more

Our function should have been triggered by timer, but wasn’t… We recently encountered a problem in Azure Function App service. We have created a Function that should be triggered on schedule, once every day. It’s a typical case for use of a [TimerTrigger]. For example, [TimerTrigger(“0 0 8 * * *”)] should start the function … Read more

In large Data Lake Stores, operations on ACL entries are slow I recently wanted to simplify permissions in a Data Lake Storage file system. For folders and files in Data Lake Storage, we define permissions using Access Control Lists. Microsoft generally recommends that we should assign permissions to security groups, and not for individual users … Read more

TL/DR: If this is possible, it’s hard. I was unable to achieve the goal in reasonable time. When we work with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS), it feels pretty much like working with any other kind of file system, it’s just online. We have directories and files. We can organize them into a hierarchy … Read more

Application Insights is a great tool for monitoring solutions deployed to Azure. A user-friendly interface for Application Insights can be found in Azure Portal, and often it’s what we need. However, occasionally, we might want to automate some process that requires access to logs, and we want to query Application Insights from .NET code. I … Read more

NordVPN blocks access to PiHole device when connected I consider the following privacy tools useful, but for a long time, I didn’t see a way to make them work together at the same time: PiHole is a DNS-based ad-blocking and malware-blocking software with a friendly web UI.Typically, it’s installed on a Raspberry Pi device, and … Read more

Recently, I got curious what exactly takes up space in my Azure Storage Files. In the end, I’m paying for each stored byte. 😉I tried to find out using Azure Portal, but it wasn’t practical. While Azure Portal displays size of files, it doesn’t display total size of folders: Maybe Azure Storage Explorer can do … Read more