Blogs|Mar 20, 2019

A Raspberry Pi Motion Detector with Azure Integration

After my webinar, lots of people have been asking about how I did the motion detection demo wherein I used a Raspberry Pi based motion detector that used the Azure IoT Hub and more broadly other Azure resources. The demo was a little cheeky because I used a princess castle, toy bear, and toy police…
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Webinar|Mar 18, 2019

Arm your Azure Infrastructure

In this session, we’ll show you how to generate ARM Templates for consistent and repeatable deployments, and how you can automate the deployment of your Infrastructure. During a demo-dependent session, we are going to check how Azure DevOps can help us, using Azure Repos to control the versioning of ARM Templates, and Azure Pipelines to…
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Video|Jan 10, 2019

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.
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DevOps|Dec 31, 2018

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…
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Blogs|Dec 13, 2018

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…
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Webinar|Sep 28, 2018

Take a Spin on Azure IoT Hub

In this webinar, you’ll get a survey of Azure IoT Hub and the suite of tools surrounding it. With this knowledge, you will be able to approach it with confidence when considering your next IoT project.
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azure-and-cloud-computing|Aug 22, 2018

Using Azure Active Directory to Add World-Class Security in Under an Hour

Thanks to all that made it out to the Azure in the ATL meetup last night and thanks to Microsoft and Agile Thought for sponsoring the event and to John Garland for leading the group.  Here are the slides from last night:  Using Azure Active Directory to Add World-Class Security in Under an Hour For…
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