Rajkishore
Last spring, a deployment pipeline at a mid-sized retail company stopped working on a Tuesday morning. Nothing had changed in the code. The cause was an old script that signed in with a shared admin account and password, and Azure now required multifactor authentication for that account. The team lost half a day, and the … Read more >>
Azure Data Studio is a cross-platform desktop tool for querying SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Managed Instance. Microsoft built it on the same foundation as Visual Studio Code. Many teams used it because it ran on Mac and Linux and had notebooks and a lightweight query editor. If you want the background, … Read more >>
A development team opens its usual SQL editor to troubleshoot a slow customer portal. The saved connections still work, and yesterday’s queries run normally. However, the tool is no longer receiving security fixes, and the team’s troubleshooting notebooks contain production results that should never have been committed to Git. That is the situation organizations still … Read more >>
An online retailer adds a second Azure region after a holiday outage. The team already has Application Gateway, so it expects automatic cross-region recovery. During testing, however, customers still reach the failed region because the gateway only handles traffic within its regional deployment. The decision between Azure Front Door vs Application Gateway comes down to … Read more >>
A logistics company in Texas asked me to help with their order API. It ran on three virtual machines that sat mostly idle overnight and fell over every holiday sale. A developer had also pasted the database password into a Docker environment file, and that file lived in a shared folder. They wanted containers, but … Read more >>
Teams learn how to check Azure App Service logs only after an outage, when pressure is highest, and data is already gone. Azure App Service is a managed platform for hosting web apps and APIs. It gives you several log types, and each one lives in a different place. You will learn what each log … Read more >>
A few years ago, I joined a call with a retail company in Ohio. Their checkout API had slowed down every Friday evening for a month. Nobody had alerts set up, and the monthly Azure bill had jumped 30 percent. Half the team said, “Check Azure Advisor.” The other half said, “Open Azure Monitor.” They … Read more >>
A retail operations team once called me because their order-sync job had stopped working overnight. A developer had pasted the full function URL, including the access key, into a shared spreadsheet so the integration team could use it. Someone later copied that sheet into a ticket, the ticket went to a contractor, and the key … Read more >>