Jay Gordon

Senior Program Manager, Azure Cosmos DB

Jay Gordon is a Senior Program Manager with Azure Cosmos DB focused on reaching developer communities. Jay is located in Brooklyn, NY.

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AzureFunBytes Short – Cloud Shell

November 23rd, 2020
The Azure Cloud Shell is one of my favorite things about using Azure. Many of the administrative tasks that I may have had to run from a local computer can now be done from a browser anywhere I can authenticate into my Azure account. I used to always worry about needing a computer that had a shell or a terminal program with my ssh key on it ...

AzureFunBytes Short – Azure Containers (Kubernetes, Container Instances, More)

November 19th, 2020
A container virtualizes the underlying OS and causes the containerized app to perceive that it has the OS—including CPU, memory, file storage, and network connections—all to itself. Because the differences in underlying OS and infrastructure are abstracted, as long as the base image is consistent, the container can be deployed and run anywhere

Project Bicep Demo at Ignite 2020 by Mark Russinovich

November 12th, 2020
Bicep is a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for deploying Azure resources declaratively. It aims to drastically simplify the authoring experience with a cleaner syntax and better support for modularity and code re-use. Bicep is a **transparent abstraction** over ARM and ARM templates, which means anything that can be done in an ARM Template can

What is DevOps? with Donovan Brown

October 30th, 2020
"DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users." - Donovan Brown. Why we do "DevOps" comes down to that one big word Donovan highlights... value. Our customers want the services we provide to them to always be available, to be reliable, and to let them know if something is wrong.

Azure Web App Service and GitHub Actions (Video Tutorial)

October 23rd, 2020
The video should help provide you with a great start on using this service with your Azure Web App Service. Utilizing resources like GitHub actions can help you on your journey to becoming a Microsoft DevOps Certified Expert.

What is infrastructure as code?

October 16th, 2020
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the management of infrastructure (networks, virtual machines, load balancers, and connection topology) in a descriptive model, using the same versioning as DevOps team uses for source code. This blog post looks at two IaC options to use for Microsoft Azure.