When I visit the Azure Portal and attempt to sign in, the page often gets stuck at the following screen (“More information required”): I couldn’t find any useful solution on Google, and contacting the support team about it is low on my priority list. So I experimented and found workarounds that help unlock the access … Read more
I’ve been taking a first look at Blazor recently. I wanted to pair it with Azure Static Web Apps to test my understanding that a Blazor application can run 100% in the browser, without any backend part required (at least if I choose the right project template). If that’s true, Static Web Apps would be … Read more
A new Azure region, “Poland Central” has recently appeared in Azure. Does it offer the same features as other regions. Is it ready for use?
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 this article, you will learn how to query a specific region of an Azure Cosmos DB database. In the Azure … 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
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
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
VPN Gateway — looks great, though a bit expensive Recently, I was learning a bit about networking in Azure. As a practical exercise, I wanted to learn what is the cheapest way to achieve the following setup to protect resources in Azure Virtual Network that could be a target of a network attack, for example … Read more