Xavier Geerinck

For a new project I am working on, I want to utilize Dapr to integrate Kafka such that a REST endpoint is automatically called in my application.

As a new sort of writing, I wanted to create a "debugging" blog post where I list "my rookie" mistakes that I made while working with Dapr. I hope that by sharing I can help others to more quickly resolve their own issues 😊

The cloud war is heating up and one of the main challenges is the fear of lock-in created by these providers. Helping the raise of Kubernetes as a provider, since this allows customers to quickly move between one and the other (a deployment is a deployment, no matter the cloud you run it on.).

So far I have been using Travis-CI as my Continuous Integration (CI) system for my build and release process for my Blog. However recently, VSTS got rebranded to Azure Pipelines, and I felt everything got mature enough to finally migrate to Azure Pipelines. To my surprise this turned out to be super easy! Let's see how it can be done!

SQL Server 2019 came out in preview a while ago, and the new features announced are just wonderful! A one-to-go-tool for all your big data needs: Unstructured and Structured data that can be processed using just one tool!

Do you have Windows installed and you love using the Linux Subsystem on it? (commonly known as WSL) Well let me tell you the steps to achieve this.

So you want to create a Kubernetes cluster to start testing your docker deployment? But you would like to test this locally first? Well, then this post is for you. Here we will go in depth on how you can set up your local development environment, and then port it to the cloud when you need the scale.