Foundations of CI/CD with Azure Data Factory using Terraform

What is Azure Data Factory? Azure Data Factory, or simply ADF is Microsoft’s solution for data integration in the cloud. It is a fully managed, serverless service having around 90 different protocols that can use as dataset (both for input and output). Some of them are generic like HTTP, ODBC, File system, and there are specific like Jira, Magneto, or ServiceNow, besides a lot of standard Azure-related services like Blob storage, Azure SQL, or Azure Cosmos DB.

The top 3 reasons to use cloud services a.k.a. why migrate to the cloud

Comparing Amazon and Azure serverless services pt. 2: Deploying them with the Serverless framework

Serverless was at its 2nd major version when we were building the project and their slogan was that you can easily deploy your application with the framework to most cloud platforms – including AWS, Azure and GCP.

Comparing Amazon and Azure serverless services when developing for .NET Core

On one of our recent projects, we needed to implement an application with CRUD operations and some relateively simple integration by pushing content to two different systems, and monitor if they have been processed or not. We opted the Amazon Lambda route with Amazon DocumentDb, and the goal of this blog post is to summarize the developer experience that we faced during development of the project and comparing them to Azure Functions. As .NET developers, we faced that the developer experience is significantly better using the matching Azure technologies, and running an Amazon Lambda function locally might also have a steep learning curve for some people who are not familiar with Docker and containerization.

Sitecore, The Road to Cloud

Last year Sitecore (the company) acquired several API-first, cloud-based products. With these acquisitions, Sitecore has been reacting to the trend of Headless CMS (Content Management System) and Content as a Service (CAAS). In this blog post, I will lead you through the new and old Sitecore products and then try to speculate the Sitecore product roadmap and how it affects the customer and partner base of Sitecore.

How to do a Zero-Downtime Deployment Using Azure Kubernetes Service?

In this article, I will show you a solution for zero-downtime deployment in Azure Kubernetes Service. To add a context for it, first, we are going through some Deployment strategies. Then, I will choose the one that fits our needs. Some of them are supported by Kubernetes natively, some are not (yet). Next, I will outline a System overview by showing you the necessary Kubernetes objects in our AKS. The following part of my article presents our Azure DevOps deployment pipeline to you and briefly goes through the scripts and other settings that do the main thing: zero-downtime deployment. Finally, I am going to Wrap up the things‍