According to Microsoft, Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation meet business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using various tools and frameworks.
From DevOps to business analytics to the Internet of Things, Azure is designed to have users up and running quickly with a scalable, cost-effective solution that works with your existing investments.
This cloud computing service is a big part of Microsoft’s business, and it competes with similar services from Amazon and Google.
Therefore, our Azure Category is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.
Download Chapter 4: Engineering Real-time Analytics with Azure Synapse Link Using Cosmos DB, describes how you can architect and perform real-time analytics with Synapse, integrate Synapse Link for Cosmos DB and enable the Internet of Things (IoT). Purchase the eBook here Already a member? Log in here Not a member? Join the Resource Center to unlock… READ MORE
Introduction Handling messages out of order is always tricky. The asynchronous nature of messaging makes it challenging. On top of that, systems in the real world are messy and unpredictable. That’s why handling workflows always brings more complexity than just handling messages. To illustrate the challenge, I’ll use a scenario where my workflow depends on… READ MORE
Now that the Flux v2 extension for Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Arc is generally available, let’s do a quick guide on the topic. A Quick Guide, at least on this site , is a look at the topic from a command-line perspective for easy reproduction and evaluation. This Quick Guide is also on GitHub. Requirements You need… READ MORE
On current one I will cover how to use bicep in our Continuous Integration Azure DevOps yaml pipeline. We start from setup branch policy/branch protection. We link out CI build and make this required for purpose to protect our main branches and not allow breaking code. How to setup branch protection in Azure Devops GitHub… READ MORE
When it comes to measuring the performance of one platform against another, you can often start a religious war. Some of this is caused by the fact that performance means different things to different people or depending on the tooling, you can get results that promote falsehoods. There are many definitions of web application performance.… READ MORE
Azure Static Web Apps is a service that automatically builds and deploys full stack web apps to Azure from a GitHub repository. But how do they work? Or, a better question, how do we make them work for us? Watch Rick van den Bosch’s webinar on Azure Static Web Apps and you will have enough… READ MORE
Attributes can explain an object more precisely. Active Directory object types have predefined attributes which can use to store values and use later (query) when required. Active Directory schema also accepts custom attributes. Based on business requirements some time organizations will have to introduce custom attributes to object classes. On most occasions, it is related… READ MORE
A common problem for many organizations is to share and consume infrastructure templates. Many ended up with a storage account in Azure, but that had some limitations around versioning and sharing of secrets. Directly consuming templates from a Git repository is another option. However, that’s not exactly problem-free either. For example, what happens if a… READ MORE
Intro In this part of the blog series, I want to deploy my VPN connection to my on-premises environment and the log analytics workspace. Azure key vault Before I can start with my VPN connection I need to create an Azure key vault to store my VPN shared secret. The variables file for my key… READ MORE
This blog post will show you how you can configure Azure Arc prerequisites via the use of an Azure PowerShell script. Azure Arc allows you to onboard a wide variety of non-Azure resources, running on-premises, on other clouds or at the edge, into Azure. By projecting your existing non-Azure resources into Azure Resource Manager, it foresees a centralized management platform. Which makes it easier… READ MORE
