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Data driven agriculture with AZURE Farm beats

January 5, 2020

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…

Microsoft Azure Storage options overview

January 19, 2019

Kalyan Bandarupalli

Azure Services, Azure Storage, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure

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This post outlines the available storage options in Azure portal , creating blob data and accessing it through Azure storage explorer or using C# code. The code discussed in this post can be downloaded from here BLOBStorage Size : 906.86…

Visual Studio 2019 Preview Features

January 7, 2019

Kalyan Bandarupalli

Microsoft, Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2019

Visual Studio 2019 preview recently released at Microsoft Connect Event by Scott Guthrie and can be downloaded from here. You can install this side-by-side with Visual Studio 2017, it wouldn’t spoil your development environment. This post outlines the features that…

DevOps overview with Microsoft Azure

December 31, 2018

Kalyan Bandarupalli

DevOps, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure

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This post outlines the steps that you can follow to implement DevOps in Azure pipeline. The steps includes setting up an application, creating continuous integration, continuous delivery and release pipelines in Azure environment. What is DevOps? DevOps is the union…