I did start to work with Docker Containers on my Windows 10 machine. This is actually my development machine. It was quite a challenge to containerize some piece of legacy software. It has a desktop frontend and quite some limitations regarding performance, scalability, data management, monitoring. You may name even more. It took some time, I […]
Did you hear about Waterfall? No, I don’t mean the oldschool development practice of the NASA to ensure that a rocket-powered aircraft will fly in space forever. I mean Waterfall charts: These charts do add some value for business users as they are different. They do not just show data, they show data with a […]
Some months ago I wrote about leaving Cloudfogger behind and going to Boxcryptor. I had to set up a new machine and things went wrong. There was a mean issue with Cloudfogger on machines that host Hyper-V guests. Neither the host nor the guests could be correctly restarted or shut down after Cloudfogger had been […]
UPDATE: Maybe you are interesting how the story went on. Have a look at Natural borders of Cloud Queue: Taking the step to Service Bus. Programming for the cloud is always experimental. This can be quite scary when unexpected things happen in a production environment. Why? It is pretty hard to understand all the environment details plus […]
The day before my vacation me and my team had probably everything in place to let our cloud solution run for two weeks. The only missing peace was the “initial load”. As this is a cache based solution, data from a source system must be preloaded into the system as a whole. You may think […]
It is a small thing, but it kept me from working. When working in the Azure environment, a remote desktop user can be created to anytime connect to the “real” machine via remote desktop. When trying to do so, I got this message: An authentication error has occurred. The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted […]
I am currently working onto a project that targets Azure Cloud as data storage as well as using the strong infrastructure capabilities for scaling services up for up to 2000 calls a second. While we are not ready for that massive amount of calls, me and my team put the functionality together. When doing so, […]