Ken Muse

Improving Dev Container Feature Performance
The support for custom features in Dev Containers is a huge improvement to the process of customizing images quickly and easily. The convenience and simplicity can have a cost – performance. Trying to customize a container using a feature recently, I struggled with an incredibly long build time. This is how I improved the process.

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Mastering Azure Virtual Machines

Mastering Azure Virtual Machines

Continuing with the discussion of mastering Azure, it’s time to understand how the Azure VM SKU families are named. Most people don’t realize that each letter is actually associated with a mnemonic that is designed to make it easy to identify the ideal workload. In addition, the complete SKU name is designed to tell you key details about the VM capabilities in a way that’s easy to remember.

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