By Chris Corder | Senior Technical Advisor, Microsoft Azure#Azure #AppService #Authentication #CloudSecurity In today’s cloud-first world, securing user sessions isn’t just important, it’s essential. Azure App Service makes authentication easier than ever with its built-in Authentication and Authorization feature, commonly known as Easy Auth. It enables developers to integrate identity providers like Azure AD, Google,Continue reading “Azure App Service Authentication: Security Challenges”
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Why Is WebSocketMonitoringModule Throwing 500 Errors When WebSockets Are Disabled?
If you’ve ever poked around the diagnostics blade in Azure App Service and spotted a bunch of 500 errors blamed on something called WebSocketMonitoringModule, you’re probably thinking: “Wait… what? I didn’t even turn on WebSockets!” And you’d be right. You scroll back through your app settings, double-check the config (yep, WebSockets: Off), and yet thereContinue reading “Why Is WebSocketMonitoringModule Throwing 500 Errors When WebSockets Are Disabled?”
Understanding Azure App Service Platform Upgrades
Keeping Your Applications Reliable and Secure Ensuring the continuous reliability and security of your applications is our top priority. Azure App Service maintains its Service Level Agreement (SLA) even during platform updates. These updates provide the latest security patches, performance enhancements, and new features to keep your applications running optimally. While we strive to completeContinue reading “Understanding Azure App Service Platform Upgrades”
Performance Considerations Between Lua Scripts and Basic Commands in Redis for Cloud Applications
Choosing Between Lua Scripts and Basic Commands in Redis for Cloud Applications When using Redis—whether on Azure or elsewhere—the decision between Lua scripts and basic commands (such as StringSet) can significantly impact both performance and maintainability. Redis is widely used in cloud environments for caching, session management, and real-time analytics due to its high-speed in-memoryContinue reading “Performance Considerations Between Lua Scripts and Basic Commands in Redis for Cloud Applications”
Understanding ARR Affinity for Stateful Applications
=============================================== Overview:Application Request Routing (ARR) Affinity is often discouraged in cloud-native architectures due to concerns about scalability, resiliency, and performance. However, there are specific scenarios where enabling ARR Affinity in Azure Web Apps can be beneficial and even necessary to maintain application functionality and improve the user experience. This article outlines the advantages of ARRContinue reading “Understanding ARR Affinity for Stateful Applications”
Mastering Technical Troubleshooting: A Step-by-Step Guide
Troubleshooting technical issues is an art as much as it is a science. Whether you’re diagnosing software failures, network disruptions, or performance bottlenecks, the ability to ask the right questions and gather meaningful data is critical to resolving problems efficiently. In this blog, I’ll share a structured approach to troubleshooting, including nine key questions thatContinue reading “Mastering Technical Troubleshooting: A Step-by-Step Guide”
Crisis Management in Tech Support: An ER Doctor’s Approach
Thinking Like an ER Doctor: A Game-Changer for Technical Support Professionals We’ve all seen those dramatic medical dramas where ER doctors and nurses save lives in a blur of activity—barking orders, making snap decisions, and heroically stabilizing patients just before the next commercial break. Somewhere in the middle of one of those breaks—probably while aContinue reading “Crisis Management in Tech Support: An ER Doctor’s Approach”
Effective Alternatives to Kernel Dumps in Azure App Services
When troubleshooting complex application issues, kernel dumps are invaluable for diagnosing low-level problems such as driver conflicts, kernel-mode memory issues, or other operating system-level behaviors. However, in Azure App Services, capturing full kernel dumps is not an option due to the platform’s managed and sandboxed nature. This article explains the reasons behind this limitation andContinue reading “Effective Alternatives to Kernel Dumps in Azure App Services”
Why Flexibility is Key in Cloud Computing’s Future
The future of cloud computing is often portrayed as a linear progression—a steady march towards increasingly advanced technologies and capabilities. But evolution, whether in the natural world or technology, rarely follows a perfectly straight path. Just as chain ferns have shown the ability to “evolve backwards” to adapt to changing circumstances, cloud computing may alsoContinue reading “Why Flexibility is Key in Cloud Computing’s Future”
Mastering .NET Debugging with NetExt.dll
Debugging .NET applications can be a daunting task, especially when traditional tools like SOS or MEX don’t quite fit the bill. Enter NetExt.dll, a powerful debugging extension for WinDbg created by Rodney Viana. This tool interacts directly with the .NET debugging API, eliminating intermediary steps and enabling a more efficient debugging experience. For developers andContinue reading “Mastering .NET Debugging with NetExt.dll”
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