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Docker containers deep dive

April 13, 2020

This post outlines basic overview on Docker containers , what benefits does it brings in using in your environment and what options we have for deploying them to Azure. What is Docker? Docker is self-service entity that can run on…

Data driven agriculture with AZURE Farm beats

January 5, 2020

Kalyan Bandarupalli

Microsoft, Microsoft Azure

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As the son of a farmer, I was always thinking about using technology to help farmers to do affordable, profitable and sustainable farming. Lot of farming is based on guesswork. The decisions like when to water, when to apply pesticides,…

Async / Await guide-lines

December 31, 2019

Kalyan Bandarupalli

.NET Framework, C#, Microsoft

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There are lot of different ways to use Async\await in C#. It is bit difficult to understand what different methods, fields and keywords are under tasks and how they are different? This post outlines some bad examples that developer shouldn’t…

Analyzing root cause live site issues using Azure Portal

September 3, 2019

Kalyan Bandarupalli

ASP.NET, Azure, Microsoft, Web applications

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Quickly determining the root-cause of live site issue(s) that hosted in AZURE is important. The standard alerts that you setup in monitoring system might help you in alerting the problem and wouldn’t always help you in finding immediately the root-cause…

Connecting On-Premises Networks with AZURE Virtual Networks

February 21, 2019

Kalyan Bandarupalli

Azure, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure

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This post outlines the options that exist for connecting your on-premise network to AZURE. Following are the three options, This post explains configuration steps that required for setting up Site-to-Site Virtual Private Network. Site-to-Site Virtual Private NetworkPoint-to-Site Virtual Private NetworkExpress…

AZURE Multi Factor Authentication – deep dive

February 14, 2019

Kalyan Bandarupalli

Azure, AZURE AD, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure

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Usernames and Passwords are no longer strong enough to protect sensitive information. This post outlines different ways you can protect on-premises and cloud based applications using Microsoft Multi Factor Authentication (MFA). It also explains deployment, configuration options in-depth, API interaction…

Building a Secure ASP.NET Core Web API

February 7, 2019

Kalyan Bandarupalli

ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Azure, Microsoft, Web API

This post outlines the steps that require to secure ASP.NET Core 3.0(preview) Web API using AZURE AD. Web API uses Azure AD as identity provider which implements the OAuth2 standards. In this case AZURE AD grants the tokens to applications.…

AZURE Search Service overview – Part 2

January 27, 2019

Kalyan Bandarupalli

Azure, Azure Search Service, Microsoft

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This post explains filtering and scoring Search Service Results. Part 1 post on azure search service can be read here.Filters uses OData expression for searching the documents. The sample filter using postman as follows Filtering results The following ODATA filter…

Azure Search Service Overview – Part1

January 25, 2019

Kalyan Bandarupalli

Azure, Azure Services, Microsoft Cloud

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This post explains high-level overview of AZURE search service and its key features. Part1 includes creating a search service in Azure portal, building search indexes, uploading documents and retrieving using AZURE REST API. Azure search service REST API can be…

Android Emulator Setup tip -Visual Studio

January 22, 2019

Kalyan Bandarupalli

Andriod, Visual Studio 2019, Xamarin

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Testing Android app in Visual Studio is bit tricky and slow if you do not configure Hyper-V on your computer for maximum emulator performance. This post outlines the two steps for preparing Android emulator for testing your app in windows…