Gaurav Mantri's Personal Blog.

Azure Sidekick – An AI Assistant to Answer Questions About Your Azure Resources (Introduction)

I am pleased to present to you Azure Sidekick, an AI assistant that can answer questions about the resources running in your Azure Subscriptions. Unlike my other posts which are quite code heavy, in these series of posts about this tool, I will take you through the journey I undertook while … [Read more...]

Comparing Azure Storage Blob Versions and Snapshots

Recently Azure Storage team announced the availability of blob versions. A blob version essentially represents the state of a blob (in terms of content, properties and metadata etc.) at a particular point of time. Azure Storage automatically creates a new version of a blob whenever it is modified or … [Read more...]

Avoiding “AuthorizationFailed” error when hand-crafting Shared Access Signature for Azure Storage

I've been quite active on Stack Overflow answering a lot of Azure related questions (mostly around Azure Storage). One thing I noticed there is that there are a lot of folks running into issues when they're trying to write code themselves for creating Shared Access Signature. Most of the errors they … [Read more...]

Zone Redundant Storage (Preview v/s Classic)–Compared & Contrasted

Recently I ran into this blog post by Azure Storage Team: Azure Zone Redundant Storage in public preview. When I saw this post, the first thought that came to my mind was “it must surely be a mistake” , after all Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) has been available for quite some time now.  Out of … [Read more...]

Understanding Azure Storage Blob Access Tiers

It has been really-really long time that I have written a blog post. Past year or so has been simply crazy. From acquiring Cerebrata back to building a brand new product (Cerulean) from scratch, things kept me quite busy. In this blog post we will talk about blob access tiers. We will talk about … [Read more...]

Announcing The Launch Of Cloud Portam – A Browser Based Azure Storage Explorer

Its’ been quite some time that I blogged. Past few months have been crazy busy for me. After the failure of my last product (anybody remember CloudFileXchange thingie we did :)), I spent a lot of time thinking about what to build and then spent more time building it. The result is Cloud Portam. In … [Read more...]