Tech on Fire: Network Fundamentals – Defense in Depth
Tech on Fire with Blaize Understand how network security is layered on to improve a network security posture.
Master Python’s Async Features
Python’s async and parallel programming support is highly underrated. In this webcast, we will introduce the entire spectrum of Python’s parallel APIs. Then we will focus in on the most promising, most useful, and modern feature of Python’s async capabilities: the async and await keywords. During the webcast, we will build a small application that…
Tech on Fire: Network Fundamentals – Routing
Tech on Fire with Blaize Learn how IP traffic routing works across IP based networks like the Internet.
Tech on Fire: Network Fundamentals – The OSI Model
Tech on Fire with Blaize In this episode, Blaize will talk about the OSI Model and how it gives taxonomy to network technologies.
Pull Yourself up With Bootstrap 4!
Bootstrap 4 is the latest version of the popular CSS and JavaScript framework originally created by Twitter. Through live coding demos, Chris will show how Bootstrap makes creating dynamic and responsive web user interfaces easy. You’ll also learn how Bootstrap 4 differs from previous versions, and get some tips for whether and how to upgrade…
To Use or Not Use Blockchain
Just say the word “blockchain” and you’re likely to get mixed reactions from all kinds of people. Understanding blockchain and how it works at a conceptual level is key to understanding what uses it has and why one would want to use it. A blockchain is a fundamentally a ledger – that is a list…
Tech on Fire: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS on Azure
Tech on Fire with Blaize In this episode Blaize will discuss what Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) entail, and how these relate to cloud computing.
Data DevOps: Deploying SQL Server DACPACs to Docker
In order to truly optimize the workflow and create a culture of DevOps, we need to be able to quickly build and deploy databases. To automate this process, we need to rely on improving our ability to utilize infrastructure as code. In this post, I’m going to show you how to use sqlpackage to automate…
Securing Docker Containers with a Web Application Firewall (WAF) built on ModSecurity and NGINX
This project is on GitHub One can never be too paranoid about online security for a number of reasons. Containers are generally considered to be more secure by default that virtual machines because they substantially reduce the attack surface for a given application and its supporting infrastructure. This does not imply, however, that one should…
Into the Cosmos with the Cassandra API
Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database service for mission-critical applications. It supports turn-key global distribution, elastic scaling of throughput and storage worldwide, single-digit millisecond latencies at the 99th percentile, five well-defined consistency levels, and guaranteed high availability, all backed by industry-leading SLAs. Azure Cosmos DB automatically indexes data without requiring you to…
How To Remove All Resources in a Resource Group Without Removing the Group On Azure
Sometimes, I’ve needed to remove all the resources in a resource group without actually having to remove the resource group itself. In the Azure Portal, it’s not possible to do this other than manually selecting each resource individually and deleting it. But now that Cloud Shell has GA’d you can easily use it to accomplish…
DevOps and Documentation
Good software requires good documentation. And good documentation requires a DevOps process to ensure you always have the latest version...