ksharp – A Geek's Diary

Building Containers in Private VNets: Why ACR Agent Pools Are the Quiet Hero of Network-Isolated Workflows

The problem nobody talks about until they hit it You’ve locked down your Azure Container Registry. Public network access is disabled,...

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Jun 22, 2026 5 min read

Codespaces and the Disappearing Dev Environment: Setting Up Azure Tooling Without the Setup Tax

Every Azure engineer knows the ritual. New laptop, new project, or just a new team you’ve joined — and before you...

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Jun 18, 2026 6 min read

Move an Azure VM to an Availability Zone

Azure Availability Zones is a high-availability offering that protects your applications and data from datacenter failures. Availability Zones are unique physical...

kpantos
Oct 15, 2019 47 sec read

Get the most value out of your Azure SQL VMs

While running SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines, it is recommended that you continue using the same database performance tuning options...

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Nov 1, 2016 1 min read

Speaking engagements

It’s been quite some time since I had the chance to speak publicly and I had really missed it so when I...

kpantos
Apr 6, 2016 33 sec read

Application Insights Analytics preview available

When running many services at large scale, you rely very heavily on telemetry to help you understand what’s happening across your...

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Mar 31, 2016 55 sec read

Troubleshooting Azure App Services

As a developer you’re probably familiar with the pain of troubleshooting web applications. In Azure App Services you have a rich set of...

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Feb 3, 2016 1 min read

Microsoft Azure Storage Data Movement Library

The Microsoft Azure Storage Data Movement Library in an open source library designed for high-performance uploading, downloading and copying Azure Storage...

kpantos
Jan 8, 2016 39 sec read

Azure SQL Database Query performance insight

Managing and tuning the performance of relational databases is a challenging task that requires significant expertise and time investment but now...

kpantos
Oct 15, 2015 19 sec read

SQL Database Index Advisor

Following up on my Azure SQL Database performance tools and practices I’m very happy to bring your attention to a...

kpantos
Jul 2, 2015 37 sec read

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