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Build intelligence in your eCommerce applications using Azure Open AI

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0100

Overview

Whenever I shop online, checking the reviews of the products is a tedious task. Sometimes the low-rated reviews are based on delivery, packaging… whereas a few high-rated reviews might be on cost but not on quality. Generally, reviews/ratings are displayed without any context which results in customers needing additional time and effort to get the most value out of it. Hence, we built this prototype using Azure Open AI to present the consolidated information from all the reviews of a product.

Optimize Azure Kubernetes Service Node Cost by Combining OnDemand and Spot VMs

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0100

Overview

While it’s possible to run the kubernetes nodes either in on-demand or spot node pools separately. We can optimize the application cost without compromising the reliability by placing the pods unevenly on spot and OnDemand VMs using the topology spread constraints. With baseline amount of pods deployed in OnDemand node pool offering reliability we can scale on spot node pool based on the load at a lower cost. In this post, we will go through step by step approach on deploying an application spread unevenly on spot and OnDemand VMs.

Serverless URL Shortener on Azure

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 08:20:00 +0100

Building an URL shortener is much easier now using the Serverless technologies in Azure. In this post, we will discuss about developing this solution.

Update: My colleague (Christopher Maneu) pointed out that we could optimize the cost by using Azure Static Web Apps (SWA) for hosting the management console. I updated the design to use SWA and added another API to check what the target URL is for the specific short URL gets resolved without visiting the site.

Serverless API Backend for xBrowserSync on Azure

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:00:00 +0000

I have been using xBrowserSync for two years now with my own API Backend. In this post we will look at deploying the xBrowserSync API backedn using the serverless technologies on Microsoft Azure

I used CosmosDB to persist the data, CosmosDB supports per item size of up to 2MB. Hence I set the size limit to 1.5MB and configured it to serverless mode as to pay only for the used read/write capacity units. One Azure functions have been used to handle create-bookmark, updat-bookmark, and get details from CosmosDB operations. Using Azure API Management consumption plan, I have configured APIs to invoke this Azure function.