Azure Poland Central launched – but can you use it already?
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?
Azure Services
Cosmos DB: how to query a specific region?
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
Data Lake: filtering JSONs on the server side
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
Azure Functions: timer job doesn’t fire when it should
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
Remove multiple Data Lake Storage Gen1 Access Control List entries (ACLs) in one operation
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
Can I access Azure Data Lake Storage like a local drive in Windows?
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
Azure Storage Files: what takes my space?
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
A cheap way to VPN into Azure Virtual Network
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
Azure Storage: metrics like ‘Capacity’ and ‘Entity count’ are delayed
Here’s a short observation that surprised me in the recent days. I just want to leave a note in case anyone stumbles upon similar issue. I noticed that metrics for Azure Storage like Table Capacity and Table Entity Count show data which isn’t too accurate. Let’s see a simple case where I started migrating & … Read more