Hi, I’m Raki.
I build Data & AI Solutions on Azure.
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June 18th 2023Conquering Eviction Manager in Kubernetes
A reusable script to pretty print the signals Eviction Manager processes to evict Pods
January 29th 2023Chaos Testing Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance's High Availability
Using Chaos Mesh on Kubernetes to give SQL Server Availability Groups a hard time
December 5th 2022Arc Data Controller - Bring-Your-Own-SSL Certs
Steps to create SSL certificates for Kibana and Grafana
March 14th 2022Arc SQL MI - increase storage size of PVC
Scripted steps for increasing PVC size for Arc SQL MI
January 22nd 2022Arc SQL MI - Scripted Active Directory Setup
End-to-end script Active Directory environment setup for Arc SQL MI
December 31st 2021Detecting SQL Column Decryption using Purview, Kafka, Kafdrop and Spark
Demonstrating a reusable method to leverage Purview's Atlas Hook to build an event-based, decryption detection mechanism
October 3rd 2021Reverse Engineering Dockerfiles for Azure Arc-Enabled Data Services
Demonstrating a reusable method to reverse engineer Dockerfiles for Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance
July 25th 2021Automating Purview Integration Runtime with the Proxy API
Demonstrating a wrapper script around the Proxy API to automate Integration Runtime VM Management
July 10th 2021Demonstrating Redis Cluster management with Azure Cache for Redis
Connecting the dots between "Redis Clusters" and how Azure manages all the underlying complexity
July 5th 2021Querying Event Hub Capture files with Azure Data Explorer
Creating and querying external tables on Event Hub Capture avro files with Azure Data Explorer
January 31st 2021Replicating data from SQL Server to Azure SQL MI & DB
An illustrative summary of the different SQL Data Synchronization and Replication Options
January 13th 2021Stream Processing Event Hub Capture files with Autoloader
Processing avro files and payloads from Event Hub Capture with Databricks Autoloader
January 4th 2021Exploring Purview’s REST API with Synapse
Programmatically accessing Data Lake Asset Classifications in Synapse Spark Pools with Purview's REST API
December 28th 2020How to Recurse Data Lake Folders with Synapse Spark Pools
Demonstrating a handy recursion technique to populate all files in a Data Lake (and how to pretty print)
December 24th 2020Exploring Azure Schema Registry with Spark
Demonstrating Spark integration with Azure Schema Registry with native Event Hub endpoint and Kafka Surface
December 2nd 2020Databricks Autoloader Pipeline - an illustrated view
End-to-end illustrative walkthrough of an Autoloader Pipeline
November 26th 2020Automating Braze Data Ingestion to Synapse with Autoloader
End-to-end walkthrough of Autoloader setup for ingesting mock data from Braze
November 16th 2020Building an Intelligent Harry Potter Search Engine
A Full-Stack Web App for hosting BERT on Azure Containers
February 12th 2020Spark Certification Study Guide - Part 2 (Application)
Part 2 of the Study Guide I created to pass the Spark Certification Exam
January 2nd 2020Spark Certification Study Guide - Part 1 (Core)
Part 1 of the Study Guide I created to pass the Spark Certification Exam
January 1st 2020
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