Playing with Serverless in Kubernetes with Knative

The serverless architecture became one of the most buzzy words nowadays. Almost all the cloud providers have a Serverless platforms in their catalogues: Microsoft Azure Functions Amazon Web Services Lambda Google Cloud Functions IBM Cloud Functions Oracle Functions In an other world, there are many solutions to have a Serverless Runtime into Kubernetes, which is the most popular (and the most wonderful) container orchestrator in the market. These solutions are so helpful especially if you need portability for your functions. For example, you can have the same Serverless Runtime deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service and Google Kubernetes Engine. You can be deploying the same binaries as functions identically to both of the cloud providers. ...

November 28, 2019 · 16 min · Nebrass Lamouchi

Playing with Serverless Architecture

In some previous articles, I was writing about the Azure Functions, which is the Microsoft Serverless solutions. After joining Microsoft, I got the chance to work on this great product for many business cases and I found it was really great 🥳 Recently, one of my Facebook friends asked me to write a blog post about what is Serverless architecture ? 🤔 what is for ? 🤔 and especially, what are the scenarios that are not suitable for Serverless ? 🤔 ...

November 21, 2019 · 4 min · Nebrass Lamouchi

Playing with Spring Cloud in Azure Functions

In this tutorial, we will be experimenting a new use case of the great Azure Functions service 😁 one of my favorite products in Azure. In this tutorial, we will bring the powerful features of the Spring Framework to our Azure Functions Java projects. After this tutorial, creating a new Azure Functions Java based on business logic that you already have in your Spring Boot Application will be a very easy game. ...

November 19, 2019 · 10 min · Nebrass Lamouchi

Trip Report: Seattle Trip – November 2019

I was for a week in Seattle & Redmond, WA, to attend the Microsoft CSE OneWeek Event, which is a global hackathon for all CSE Team worldwide, from the 1st to the 9th of November. It’s my first visit to Seattle and Redmond. It was an amazing visit in very beautiful cities 🥳 The places I visited: Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle The Space Needle, Seattle The Fish Market, Seattle which is one of the oldest markets in the US The Microsoft Campus, Redmond 😍😍 The most wonderful place I ever visited. A full universe of Microsoft in a dedicated city 🥰 One of oldest Starbucks stores in the US, which still have the original logo 😁 Yeah ! with the naked lady 😳 The International District, Seattle The Volunteer Park, Seattle the WaMu Theater, Seattle where the OneWeek Hackathon event was held 🥰 It was really an amazing trip in a wonderful place. I feel like I felt in love with Seattle 😍 ...

November 10, 2019 · 1 min · Nebrass Lamouchi

Celebrating the 100 points in the Google Lighthouse Reports

In this post, I will share with you my experience starting from a disaster that occurred to my blog ☠️😢😭 until reaching the 100/100 performance score and get all Audits Validation Badges on Google Lighthouse 🏆🥇🎉🎊🎈💯/💯🥳 October 10th, I was writing a new post in my blog, in one of the previews, the site kept loading without giving any response. 😱😫😰😓😳🥵 My blog is based on the Wordpress CMS and hosted in an Ubuntu VPS by OVH since August 28th, 2015. ...

October 23, 2019 · 6 min · Nebrass Lamouchi

Playing with Java in Azure Functions - New Release

In one of the previous posts, I introduced the Azure Functions Java. I felt that I need to write a dedicated tutorial to this great Azure Serverless service 😁 In this post, I will be covering many concepts in deep: Triggers and bindings Events and messaging Deployments & Consumptions Monitoring Generating the hello-world project We will scaffold a Java-based Azure Function project using Maven Archetypes, using this command: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 $ mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=com.microsoft.azure \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=azure-functions-archetype \ -DappName=hello-world-app-example \ -DappRegion=FranceCentral \ -DresourceGroup=helloworld-rg \ -DgroupId=com.helloworld.group \ -DartifactId=helloworld-functions \ -Dpackage=com.helloworld \ -DinteractiveMode=false The generated project will look like: ...

October 19, 2019 · 25 min · Nebrass Lamouchi

Trip Report: Netherlands Trip - October 2019

I was for a week in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to attend the Microsoft OpenHack about the Migrating Workloads to Azure from the 14th to the 18th of October. It’s not my first visit to Amsterdam, and like every time, it was an amazing visit 🥳 Like every trip, here is a small Flickr album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nebrass78/albums/72157711449636051

October 19, 2019 · 1 min · Nebrass Lamouchi

Thank you JetBrains for the complimentary subscription ! 🤩

I would like to thank JetBrains for offering me the complimentary JetBrains All Products Pack subscription as part of the JetBrains Developer Recognition Program 🤩 Say hello to my IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate

September 30, 2019 · 1 min · Nebrass Lamouchi

Playing with Azure Monitor services and Spring Boot

In enterprise application, performance is major requirement of success. Especially for applications where slowness will have a direct detrimental impact on business productivity, profits and even the brand itself, like trading platforms and e-commerces. If a trading platform loads slowly or experiences errors, it will translate into loss of business, and losses can be extremely high, and the customer might end up switching to another competitor. In this context comes the Application Performance Management (APM). APM is the monitoring and management of performance and availability of applications. APM strives to detect and diagnose complex application performance problems to maintain an expected level of service. ...

September 23, 2019 · 10 min · Nebrass Lamouchi

Playing with OpenShift 4 locally

January 2018, Red Hat acquired CoreOS for 250 million dollars 🤩. CoreOS was one of the leading companies of Linux & Containers market with their wide offer of products: CoreOS Tectonic: container application platform based on Kubernetes. CoreOS Container Linux: lightweight Linux distribution designed to run containerized applications. CoreOS Operators Framework: an open source toolkit designed to manage Kubernetes native applications. CoreOS Quay: a container registry for building, storing, and distributing your private containers. CoreOS rkt: an application container engine developed for modern production cloud-native environments. even more and more.. Red HatOpenShift 3.x was facing many big problems especially in installations and upgrades. It was a real nightmare to install an OCP Cluster. I never heard an OCP Admin talking about upgrading OCP without discussing the problems that they faced. Personally, I worked for two customers from 2017 to 2019 that adopted OCP, and when it comes to cluster upgrades they were dedicating time and they were bringing people from Red Hat to help them do that 😂 Although, the upgrades were guaranteed by Red Hat in all technical and commercial announcements. ...

September 20, 2019 · 8 min · Nebrass Lamouchi