Containers

All The Ways to Run Containers on Azure

Containers are no longer the best kept secret in IT. Practically everywhere I go, I hear of organizations using containers for everything from small projects to mission critical 24×7 applications with 99.999% uptime SLA’s. These kinds of projects all have a myriad of different requirements and drivers that go into making the decision of where…
Mentoring

On Being a Mentor

Mentoring is a big part of what I do professionally, but my path to being a mentor started with being mentored myself when I was still very young. It all started with my first computer, a Commodore 64, which is what got me interested in IT. My dad saw that I had this interest, and…

Angular NgRX Exploring The Essentials of NgRX

In this webinar, programmer and trainer Eric Greene will walk you through the essentials of NgRx. As part of the essentials, some of the important principles of Redux and RxJS will be explained. A simple Angular application will be enhanced with the NgRx Store and Effects modules demonstrating how to orchestrate actions, reducers, selectors and…

Power BI: When My Dataset is Too Big and My Reports are Too Slow

If you are importing around 10 million rows and no more than 100 MB of data in Power BI, more than likely you don’t have performance issues. But, if you trying to deal with more than 50 gigabytes of data in Power BI, and you have complex DAX measures there is a good chance you’re…

Missing Tests on Azure DevOps

Trying to integrate unit tests and code coverage Azure DevOps to other systems and things seem to be disappearing? Learn why it happens and how to fix it...

Securing Your Modern Azure SQL DB Deployment

In this webinar, you’ll learn modern security approaches in Microsoft Azure SQL DB, and how to leverage them in your applications. In SQL Server 2012, Microsoft introduced the self-contained database, a new way to implement security in SQL. Not many people payed attention to this feature, but it is in the center of secure Azure…

Building and Deploying Your First Machine Learning Model with Azure ML

Azure Machine Learning service offers an end-to-end platform to build, train, deploy, and manage machine learning models. The service fully supports open-source technologies such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and scikit-learn and can be used for any kind of machine learning, from classical ml to deep learning, supervised and unsupervised learning. Attend this session to learn how…

Azure Databricks is Easier Than You Think

In this 1-hour webinar, we’ll show you how easy it is to create ETL pipelines in Python. In this session, we’ll spin up a Spark cluster, create a pipeline in a notebook, and talk about why this process is far better than creating pipelines in other frameworks. Migrating to Databricks from SSIS is far easier…
Nextcloud on Azure

Nextcloud and Azure Blob Storage: A Match Made in the Cloud

Hosting your own File Sharing service like DropBox or OneDrive is not only possible, it’s actually not too hard. One of the most widely used products for doing just this is an app called Nextcloud. In short, Nextcloud is an open source web app written in PHP that acts as a front end for and…