Nerd Stuff

Apache Spark is a high performance batch processing engine who’s power draws from the distributed processing of data. A single job is parsed out to multiple worker nodes to compute. Kubernetes native scheduler and job processing is driving more and more companies to investigate using the two platforms together. Currently... [Read More]

Recently I have been working on a project to compare the performance of an application on Azure VMs and running on the Azure Kubernetes Service. To streamline the infrastructure deployment, the team centralized deployments using HashiCorp’s Terraform. In trying to deploy our application completely via Terraform we ran into some... [Read More]

In my previous article, Host Azure DevOps Build containers on AKS, I outlined how to use the Azure Kubernetes Service to create a scalable build agent pool. I had plans to publish a project to GitHub to help facilitate the deployment of this but it never made it off the... [Read More]

I don’t like waiting in lines, lines of any kind. Hatred of lines is one of my many character flaws. It is this hatred for waiting in lines that drove me to look to find a faster way to run my code through a build pipeline in Azure DevOps. I... [Read More]

I have been working with Azure Functions on my latest project. It took me some trial and error to get the tools working well for local development so I wanted to document and share them. In this post, I will cover local debugging and bindings. [Read More]