Raunak Narooka

Dec 11, 2021

Using Nuget packages? Awesome!! Thought about updating them?

All developers know how critical Nuget packages and in general libraries are. But at the end, a Nuget package is a piece of code and no…

Azure Devops

5 min read

Using Nuget packages? Awesome!! Thought about updating them?

May 9, 2021

Make life simpler, Use Managed Identities -Part 1

A very underrated feature of Azure is the Azure Active AD. A lot of Azure Services can very easily integrate with Azure AD with just a…

Microsoft

5 min read

Make life simpler, Use Managed Identities -Part 1

Jan 8, 2021

Do things Gracefully with Azure Scheduled Events

Now as the Cloud is becoming an indivisible part of our IT journey and we are achieving higher and higher level of abstractions, we tend to forget that ultimately everything runs on a server in some data center. And servers need maintenance and some downtime. Azure guarantees that Virtual machines…

Azure

4 min read

Jul 14, 2020

Azure Functions and Caching: Sometimes its a tricky situation

Caching is such a wonderful concept. It’s an easy to believe, practical and an efficient solution to many time constraint problems. It makes things very efficient , and its always feel good to explain the concept to your stakeholders. But it does come with its own set of problems.When should…

Azure

4 min read

Mar 7, 2020

Make your Build pipeline run faster — Pipeline Artifacts (Part 2)

In my previous post, I mentioned about using Pipeline Cache which increases the speed of your YAML Multistage Pipeline. Pipeline Cache…

Microsoft Azure

4 min read

Make your Build pipeline run faster — Pipeline Artifacts (Part 2)

Dec 15, 2019

Make your Build Pipelines run faster — Pipeline Cache (Part 1)

In my previous post, ( https://medium.com/@raunaknarooka/do-ci-cd-the-smart-way-708bfcea52d), I gave a brief example of how to use…

Azure Pipelines

5 min read

Make your Build Pipelines run faster — Pipeline Cache (Part 1)

Sep 30, 2019

Drop ARM, Try Adopting Fluent

We know that ARM templates are one of the most sought after and popular ways to deploy anything on Azure. They are a human readable JSON file. But they come with some issues. They have a higher learning curve. We need to use specific API versions while we defining resources…

Azure

3 min read

Sep 28, 2019

Do CI/CD the smart way :)

So you are done developing your code, it works well in your local machine and now you think of deploying it in Dev, QA, Prod and so on… When you think about deploying the code, whats the first thing that comes in your mind? I don’t know about you, but…

Continuous Integration

6 min read

Aug 7, 2019

Create Customized Dashboards in Application Insights

Application Insights is a treasure box of marvelous things. You can practically do everything you can possible think of, to get insights about how your application, web app or Azure function is behaving. It integrates seamlessly with almost any Azure resource. …

Azure

5 min read

Create Customized Dashboards in Application Insights

Jun 23, 2019

Tips and Tricks for Azure Functions :)

I am falling in love with the Azure functions. It makes my life simple and its just so easy to integate it with other components. Service Bus, Blob Storage, API management and the list goes on and on. Its customizable and the Durable framework is just so awesome. …

Azure

6 min read