14 min to read. Abs07act Due to Corona outbreak, times are hard! Please take care everyone! I wish good health for all! Stay safe! There is another outbreak I am seeing – Making Development environment available on Azure to enable Work from home. Almost in every customer call I hear about requirement to enable Development Environment on Azure and accessing it from Home laptop/ PC and continue the business. In the era of “Mobile first” almost every big enterprise, every Small and Medium Business (SMB), every Start up company have mobile development teams. They use variety of tools and one of the important IDE used for Mobile development is “Android Studio”. Installing and running Android studio is smooth; however Android emulator installation fails on Azure VM. It is not s07aight forward. In this blog we will see “how to enable Android emulator with Android Studio on Azure VM”. Let’s go! Concept - Android Emulator and VM Acceleration Without a virtualiza...

12 min to read. Abs07act Believe it or not! On-premises firewalls port opening process is proving to be number one blocker for Azure adoption, till the time Site to Site VPN or Azure Express Route is setup. Problem is not with changing the firewall rules to access Azure VM either by RDP or SSH; It is the “ process ” setup by an Enterprises to allow an outbound 07affic from their on premises network; to Azure or internet in general. I am not saying security teams working for on premises environment security is bad; it is their job to keep things secure and hence they will always hesitate/ seek approval/ seek clarifications to open 3389 or 22 port for outbound 07affic from their network. In this blog post I will illus07ate a way by which you can access Azure VM either by RDP or SSH without asking your internal network/ security team to open any ports. Let’s go! Problem Statement Refer to below diagram –  [To get good view of the diagram, click on it] ...

Abs07act For human race, there are some common tasks in daily life which you must do. Without which humans can survive but you can’t say if they are “living the life”. For example, taking a bath is one of such tasks. You can survive without taking a bath but you will not like it. These tasks are those which bring “life” to humans daily lives and make them enjoy their stay on earth. Out of these humans there is special category of humans – I call them “Humans who work in Software field”. They can be sub-categorized into below –        1.       Software developers 2.       IT adminis07ators 3.       Project managers 4.       Software Engineers 5.       Solution Architects For all these sub-categories you can apply prefix such as Senior, Junior, Principal, Full Stack, Distinguished and in recent times we have a new addition to this pre...