Koushik's Blog on Open Source on Azure
Step by step: Set up a Docker host on Azure using CLI on a Mac
After I published my architectural discussion on how to scale a simple dockerized Apache-PHP...
Author: Koushik Biswas Date: 12/11/2016
Scaling a LAMP app using Docker Containers - simple code and architectural discussion
As the journey to the cloud and containerization continues, and the quest to scale and leverage...
Author: Koushik Biswas Date: 12/10/2016
Ansible on Red Hat on Microsoft Azure: Deploy Apache Web App with Mysql back-end
Introduction After the Microsoft - Red Hat alliance, engineering teams from both sides are working...
Author: Koushik Biswas Date: 05/27/2016
Thoughts on Azure Stack and Multi-Cloud Strategy
What is Azure Stack? Is it truly Azure-In-A-Box? Why should one use it? You know that it makes...
Author: Koushik Biswas Date: 02/15/2016
Open Source on Azure - What we achieved together
As we transitioned to 2016, we can look back at the closing months of 2015 with pride and happiness...
Author: Koushik Biswas Date: 02/02/2016
Set up and use Docker Swarm on Azure
As Docker dominates as the hot containerization topic, the focus is starting to shift from just...
Author: Koushik Biswas Date: 12/06/2015
An often overlooked trick to get better disk performance from your Azure Linux VM
This may sound obvious to many - my apologies to that section of my audience. However, as I engage...
Author: Koushik Biswas Date: 11/19/2015
Set up a MySQL IaaS NDB cluster with 4 nodes on Azure Linux
Introduction In an earlier blog post, I wrote about setting up a MySQL single server instance on...
Author: Koushik Biswas Date: 10/26/2015
MySQL performance benchmark on Azure Linux: OS disk (ext4) vs RAID 0 array (xfs)
Introduction In an earlier blog post, I wrote about how we can configure an Azure Linux (Ubuntu) VM...
Author: Koushik Biswas Date: 10/24/2015
Set up Azure Ubuntu VM with XFS on RAID
Summary: If you are running applications like MySQL / MongoDB / Cassandra / Kafka or any other...
Author: Koushik Biswas Date: 10/15/2015
Step by Step: Set up Docker on Azure, Connect to Nginx container from Windows
Level: Easy Objective of Tutorial: Set up a Docker Server on an Ubuntu VM running on Azure Set up a...
Author: Koushik Biswas Date: 09/26/2015
Choosing between Azure Event Hub and Kafka: What you need to know
Any organization/ architect/ technology decision maker that wants to set up a massively scalable...
Author: Koushik Biswas Date: 08/08/2015