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Development

Swagger is now the OpenAPI Specification

A while back I wrote an OSS Spotlight post about the Swagger project. In short, Swagger is “the world’s most popular API tooling”. It’s a…

Oct 20, 2017 • 3 min read
Certification

Big 70-534 Exam Updates Coming with Exam 70-535 (RETIRED)

There were some recent announcements about upcoming Microsoft Certification Retirement Plans. Among these plans is included the retirement of the 70-534 Architecting Azure Solutions exam.…

Oct 10, 2017 • 2 min read
Azure IoT

Azure IoT Developer Kits (AZ3166) Have Arrived

The Azure IoT Developer Kit is an Arduino compatible Internet of Things (IoT) board with quite a few sensors, buttons, and display all built-in. The…

Oct 4, 2017 • 2 min read
Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure gets a new Logo and a Manifesto

Out of the MANY different announcements made today is included the fact that Microsoft has created a new logo for the Microsoft Azure cloud. The…

Sep 25, 2017 • 1 min read
Azure Management

Azure Regions and Availability Zones

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]For a long time, since the beginning of Microsoft Azure, the most granular control you could have for choosing…

Sep 22, 2017 • 4 min read
Azure Integration

What is Azure Event Grid?

Azure Event Grid is a messaging service built to enable event-based architectures to be built more easily. At the basic level it’s similar to a…

Aug 24, 2017 • 4 min read
Microsoft Azure Functions
Azure Compute

Scaling Azure Functions with Durable Functions

Serverless compute is the latest advancement in Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities in the cloud. Azure Functions is the Serverless Compute service options available…

Aug 15, 2017 • 8 min read
Azure IoT

Azure IoT Developer Kit Ready for Pre-Order

The new Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Kit board is pretty amazing! It is Arduino compatible and includes many sensors, buttons, and an OLED display all…

Aug 11, 2017 • 2 min read
Azure IoT

Azure IoT Developer Kit: Sensor Overview

The Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Kit is an Arduino compatible board built for helping with prototyping Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. The key difference with…

Aug 8, 2017 • 6 min read
Azure IoT

Raspberry Pi Device Simulator for Azure IoT

One of the long time frustrations with Raspberry Pi development is that you needed a physical device and hardware (sensors, buttons, etc) to fully develop…

Aug 2, 2017 • 2 min read
Arduino

Programming Arduino with Visual Studio Code

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a cross-platform, Node.js-based IDE (Integrated Development Environment). It’s been maturing into a really amazing development tool. It’s not really the…

Aug 1, 2017 • 2 min read