Tech expert with 20+ years of experience across roles such as CTO, Chief Architect, and Consultant. 3× Microsoft MVP, passionate blogger, and open-source contributor.https://itaypodhajcer.com/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/a-simple-uniswapv3-assistant-with-azure-openai-semantic-kernel/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/a-simple-uniswapv3-assistant-with-azure-openai-semantic-kernel/Semantic Kernel is an open-source SDK that lets you easily build agents that can integrate existing code and AI models like OpenAI, Azure…Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:33:26 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/building-deploying-a-gatsby-website-to-ipfs-using-azure-pipelines/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/building-deploying-a-gatsby-website-to-ipfs-using-azure-pipelines/The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is not meant just for storing arbitrary folders and files, it can also be used to host and serve…Sun, 02 Feb 2020 10:39:08 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/creating-a-custom-azure-function-trigger-that-listens-to-ethereum-contract-events/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/creating-a-custom-azure-function-trigger-that-listens-to-ethereum-contract-events/More common than not, blockchain based systems and solutions are more than just the deployed smart contracts. There usually is a client…Sun, 12 Jan 2020 17:36:41 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/creating-a-custom-parity-docker-image/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/creating-a-custom-parity-docker-image/Creating a custom Parity Ethereum Client Docker image is done by writing a dockerfile script. To keep things a simple as possible, I’ll be…Sun, 29 Dec 2019 08:31:43 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/creating-a-javascript-github-action-for-generating-ethereum-addresses/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/creating-a-javascript-github-action-for-generating-ethereum-addresses/GitHub Actions allow us to automate software workflows, such as continuous integration and deployment (CI and CD), directly from our…Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:36:15 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/deploying-a-geo-redundant-serverless-rabbitmq-cluster-on-azure-using-pulumi-for-net/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/deploying-a-geo-redundant-serverless-rabbitmq-cluster-on-azure-using-pulumi-for-net/Pulumi, an open source cloud development platform that supports multiple languages and platforms, allows programming and managing cloud…Mon, 06 Jul 2020 14:09:13 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/deploying-ion-node-s-microservices-on-azure-virtual-machines/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/deploying-ion-node-s-microservices-on-azure-virtual-machines/ION is a decentralized layer two, public, permissionless network for decentralized identifiers, which is developed and maintained by…Mon, 22 Aug 2022 17:58:24 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/easily-create-azure-vm-custom-linux-images-for-asp-net-core-services-with-github-actions-and-packer/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/easily-create-azure-vm-custom-linux-images-for-asp-net-core-services-with-github-actions-and-packer/Creating Docker container images with build pipeline, whether it’s with GitHub Actions or any other such tool, is common and straight…Sun, 02 Jan 2022 12:02:53 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/easily-running-stability-ai-s-stablestudio-on-azure/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/easily-running-stability-ai-s-stablestudio-on-azure/StableStudio is a web-based application that allows users to create and edit images using generative AI. It is the official open source…Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:35:30 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/easily-terraforming-an-ethsigner-with-an-azure-key-vault-hsm-based-key/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/easily-terraforming-an-ethsigner-with-an-azure-key-vault-hsm-based-key/EthSigner, an Ethereum transaction signer which separates private key management from transaction validation, can be used to sign…Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:03:02 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/easily-terraforming-interacting-with-an-azure-confidential-ledger/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/easily-terraforming-interacting-with-an-azure-confidential-ledger/Azure Confidential Ledger, a managed and decentralized ledger for data entries backed by blockchain, enables maintaining data integrity by…Tue, 17 Jan 2023 14:58:11 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/easy-terraforming-of-an-azure-batch-service-with-an-auto-scaling-pool/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/easy-terraforming-of-an-azure-batch-service-with-an-auto-scaling-pool/Azure Batch service, a job scheduling and computing power allocation managed solution, allows running jobs on pools of virtual machines of…Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:27:52 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/effortlessly-pulling-ethereum-block-data-into-azure-machine-learning/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/effortlessly-pulling-ethereum-block-data-into-azure-machine-learning/Azure Machine Learning, Microsoft’s managed machine leaning service, has multiple mechanisms to pull data for processing. One of those…Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:59:40 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/geo-redundant-stateful-service-made-easy-with-asp-net-core-next-and-azure-virtual-machines/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/geo-redundant-stateful-service-made-easy-with-asp-net-core-next-and-azure-virtual-machines/The biggest challenge when developing stateful services, is synchronizing changes to state across all instances of a service. The purpose…Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:40:28 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/getting-a-bitcoin-full-node-up-and-running-on-azure-in-no-time-with-bicep/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/getting-a-bitcoin-full-node-up-and-running-on-azure-in-no-time-with-bicep/Bitcoin, which requires no introduction, the world’s first crypto currency, is more than just wallets and balances. Like other blockchain…Mon, 21 Mar 2022 13:50:39 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/getting-a-fast-syncing-go-ethereum-node-up-and-running-on-azure-in-less-than-10-minutes/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/getting-a-fast-syncing-go-ethereum-node-up-and-running-on-azure-in-less-than-10-minutes/As Ethereum’s mainnet state continue to grow, it also lengthens the time it takes to fast-sync a node, specifically, a Go Ethereum node…Mon, 19 Jul 2021 14:24:43 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/load-balancing-azure-container-instances-with-envoy/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/load-balancing-azure-container-instances-with-envoy/Azure Container Instances are a very convenient and easy-to-use but do have limitations that, sometimes, make them unsuitable for some…Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:43:48 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/making-the-most-of-gpu-nodes-on-azure-kubernetes-service-using-the-nvidia-gpu-operator/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/making-the-most-of-gpu-nodes-on-azure-kubernetes-service-using-the-nvidia-gpu-operator/The NVIDIA GPU Operator simplifies the use of NVIDIA GPUs in Kubernetes clusters by automating the installation and configuration of…Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:13:15 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/running-a-parity-docker-container-with-custom-configuration/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/running-a-parity-docker-container-with-custom-configuration/Running the Parity Ethereum Client as a Docker container with a custom configuration is a relatively simple task, that usually only…Sun, 22 Dec 2019 11:13:33 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/running-an-interplanetary-file-system-node-using-azure-container-instances/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/running-an-interplanetary-file-system-node-using-azure-container-instances/The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol and a network for storing and sharing data using a distributed file system with a…Sun, 19 Jan 2020 17:28:51 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/running-automatic1111-s-stable-diffusion-web-ui-on-azure/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/running-automatic1111-s-stable-diffusion-web-ui-on-azure/Automatic1111 Stable Diffusion Web UI is a web interface for Stable Diffusion, an AI model that can generate images from text prompts or…Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:07:42 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/running-ethereum-s-execution-consensus-nodes-on-azure-kubernetes-service/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/running-ethereum-s-execution-consensus-nodes-on-azure-kubernetes-service/Now that Ethereum’s merge is behind us, where Eth1 and Eth2 are now one single network with a consensus layer and an execution layer, the…Thu, 29 Sep 2022 21:02:42 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/running-ollama-on-azure-kubernetes-service/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/running-ollama-on-azure-kubernetes-service/Ollama is a framework that simplifies deployment and interaction with Large Language Models without the need for complex setup. It supports…Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:57:57 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/running-quorum-in-a-single-docker-container-configuration/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/running-quorum-in-a-single-docker-container-configuration/J.P. Morgan Chase’s Quorum is one of the currently available permissioned Ethereum clients, forked from the Go Ethereum client. When you…Tue, 18 Feb 2020 09:31:25 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/setting-up-consensys-s-quorum-key-manager-on-azure/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/setting-up-consensys-s-quorum-key-manager-on-azure/A while back I did an article on how to deploy EthSigner on Azure. Since then, ConsenSys was hard at work building a solution that’s based…Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:51:59 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/simple-decentralized-identifier-did-document-hosting-on-azure/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/simple-decentralized-identifier-did-document-hosting-on-azure/Decentralized identifier documents are a new type of digital identity document that enable verifiable and decentralized interactions…Tue, 30 May 2023 14:56:54 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/simple-ethereum-wallets-management-with-azure-key-vault/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/simple-ethereum-wallets-management-with-azure-key-vault/The most important piece of information for every Ethereum wallet owner, is the private key. It is the most important because loss of that…Thu, 03 Dec 2020 14:45:31 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/simple-mastodon-node-deployment-on-azure/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/simple-mastodon-node-deployment-on-azure/Mastodon is a decentralized social media network that lets users create and join various communities of their choice. Mastodon also…Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:43:03 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/simple-nft-interacting-azure-bot/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/simple-nft-interacting-azure-bot/Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), one of the hottest topics in the blockchain ecosphere right now, which represent unique, non-interchangeable…Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:09:46 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/simple-terraform-wrapper-module-for-deploying-an-azure-blockchain-service/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/simple-terraform-wrapper-module-for-deploying-an-azure-blockchain-service/Azure Blockchain Service, Microsoft Azure’s managed blockchain offering, delivers a simple deployment of a multi-node blockchain solution…Mon, 15 Feb 2021 18:28:02 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/terraforming-a-serverless-etcd-cluster-on-azure/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/terraforming-a-serverless-etcd-cluster-on-azure/etcd, a distributed reliable key value store, is the mechanism used by Kubernetes to maintain the cluster’s configuration, but we don’t…Thu, 26 Mar 2020 17:53:53 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/terraforming-a-serverless-mongodb-replica-set-with-split-horizon-dns-on-azure-and-cloudflare/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/terraforming-a-serverless-mongodb-replica-set-with-split-horizon-dns-on-azure-and-cloudflare/Occasionally, some scenarios require non-orthodox deployments, whether it’s due to a temporary state of a system such as moving from an…Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:05:35 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/terraforming-load-balanced-multi-region-hyperledger-besu-nodes-on-azure/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/terraforming-load-balanced-multi-region-hyperledger-besu-nodes-on-azure/Hyperledger Besu, an enterprise ready Ethereum client developed by PegaSys, can be used for both private networks and public networks such…Mon, 24 Feb 2020 23:04:14 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/use-auth0-jwt-tokens-for-authenticating-to-a-hyperledger-besu-node/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/use-auth0-jwt-tokens-for-authenticating-to-a-hyperledger-besu-node/One of Hyperledger Besu’s enterprise features, is it’s ability to allow authentication using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) issued by an external…Tue, 03 Mar 2020 22:26:14 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/using-a-node-js-script-to-upload-a-folder-to-a-remote-ipfs-node/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/using-a-node-js-script-to-upload-a-folder-to-a-remote-ipfs-node/Not always running ipfs add or browsing to the webui to upload a file or a folder is possible. There are scenarios where the only option…Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:04:42 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/using-azure-api-management-to-limit-access-to-a-parity-ethereum-node/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/using-azure-api-management-to-limit-access-to-a-parity-ethereum-node/The Parity Ethereum client is not an enterprise targeted implementation, which, when used in scenarios that require limiting access to the…Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:44:26 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/using-azure-devops-pipelines-to-build-a-solidity-smart-contract/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/using-azure-devops-pipelines-to-build-a-solidity-smart-contract/In real world scenarios, a developer usually doesn’t deploy a software component to a production environment straight from his local…Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:53:26 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/using-azure-pipelines-to-generate-a-net-package-from-a-solidity-contract-s-abi/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/using-azure-pipelines-to-generate-a-net-package-from-a-solidity-contract-s-abi/Most commonly, Azure Pipelines is used to build, publish and/or deploy software artifacts. But, as it is possible to execute…Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:57:12 GMThttps://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/using-generative-ai-for-a-self-evolving-software-component/https://itaypodhajcer.com/blog/using-generative-ai-for-a-self-evolving-software-component/With all the hype around generative AI and the question of whether developers will be needed in the future or not, I decided to experiment…Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:26:26 GMT