Rahul Rai is a Microsoft Azure MVP and Group Product Manager at LogicMonitor, sharing hands-on cloud and container insights from Sydney.
106 articles from this blog
A tutorial on building a no-code incident management system using Azure Logic Apps to monitor Twitter sentiment and create PagerDuty alerts.
A guide to setting up cost-effective, on-demand load testing using Locust and Heroku for web applications.
Explains how to use the Startup File configuration in Azure App Service for Linux to pass command-line arguments to a containerized ASP.NET Core application.
A guide to using VS Code's remote development features with Docker Compose for developing and debugging microservices in both standalone and integrated modes.
A guide to building a custom, durable event source for Knative Eventing using .NET Core and the Azure Durable Task Framework.
A guide to enhancing Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for .NET with MSBuild binary logging, Coverlet for code coverage, and Report Generator.
A technical guide on implementing origin authentication and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Istio using custom JWT tokens and identity providers.
Explains how to use CoreDNS with Istio to abstract and conceal the internal network identities of microservices, enabling more flexible service communication.
A guide to creating command aliases in Windows Terminal to save time and keystrokes for developers using Docker, Git, and Kubernetes.
A guide to automating LaTeX document compilation and PDF generation using GitHub Actions, demonstrated through a personal resume project.
Part 2 of a series on building monitoring and management for IoT Edge devices using Azure Durable Functions and Azure Functions.
Explores using Azure Durable Entities (Actor Model) for scalable, fault-tolerant monitoring and management of IoT devices.
Part 2 of a tutorial series on building a GraphQL client in TypeScript to interact with an ASP.NET Core GraphQL API, using Apollo Client.
First part of a tutorial series on building a GraphQL application using ASP.Net Core and TypeScript, covering core concepts and advantages.
A guide to running ASP.NET Core integration tests with SQL Server in Docker containers within Azure Pipelines, solving container readiness issues.
Guide to gracefully releasing resources and handling shutdown signals in a .NET Core application deployed on Kubernetes.
A tutorial on implementing real-time online user counting using Azure SignalR Service and ASP.NET Core, based on Dino Esposito's SignalR series.
A guide to using Azure DevOps Projects to add CI/CD pipelines to existing Dockerized .NET applications with minimal setup.
Final part of a series on building Mixed Reality IoT applications using the MSF Process Model, focusing on deploying the MR app to a device.
Part 2 of a series on building a Mixed Reality IoT application, covering the development and stabilization phases using Unity and Azure services.
