Continuous Deployment of Azure Linux webapps using Kudu
This is continuation of last post around hosting Linux web apps on Azure using Docker containers. Our current front-end deployment pipeline on the VMs has been: $ npm update on wp-content/themes/our-theme $ bower install $ gulp build --production Since we were now
nginx and PHP on Azure Linux Web Apps using custom docker containers
This is part I of hosting PHP apps using custom Docker containers Linux Web Apps on Azure have been in public preview for a while and we finally decided to give it a spin by moving a WordPress site to it.
Scaling Azure Search Service using Runbooks
One of our customers running on Azure has 10x spikes in traffic during certain day of a week. Since the spikes are predictable and only for certain days, instead of running all services at max capacity, we only scale them
Copying Azure Blob content from one storage account to another
Azure Storage is cool, we use it over here on our .com to server all wp uploads using Azure Storage Plugin for WordPress and we use it almost everywhere else as well for storing our MongoDB collections, for storing images,
Running Clustered WordPress on Windows Azure Virtual Machines
We've been running our WordPress corporate site on GoDaddy's shared hosting and had been experiencing really slow response times (around 12 seconds with empty cache) so as a weekend project we decided to move over from GoDaddy to Windows Azure.