Chris Pietschmann
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Chris Pietschmann

Chris Pietschmann is a Microsoft MVP (since 2008), HashiCorp Ambassador, IBM Champion and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with 25+ years of experience designing and building Cloud & Enterprise systems. He has worked with companies of all sizes from startups to large enterprises. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.  
Microsoft MVPMicrosoft MCTHashiCorp Ambassador 2025IBM Champion 2026

742 articles 4 books

Azure Compute

Azure Functions Visual Studio Tools Preview for VS’2015

The serverless computing realm of cloud computing has been growing in interest and functionality lately. Recently, Azure Functions reached General Availability and an eagerly anticipated…

Dec 14, 2016 5 min read
Microsoft Azure

How big is the Microsoft Azure Cloud?

The Microsoft Azure Cloud is huge. It’s the largest cloud provider in the world with 38 Regions currently (30 online) spread across the globe, and…

Dec 9, 2016 2 min read
Azure Data & Storage

Static Website Hosting in Azure Storage

Traditional shared hosting providers generally cost anywhere between $8 – $10 USD per month. The reason is you need to reserve some CPU and Memory…

Nov 30, 2016 4 min read
Azure Compute

Single Instance VMs Now With 99.9% SLA

Since the initial release of the Virtual Machine (VM) hosting service within Microsoft Azure there’s been a limitation on achieving the minimum requirements for the…

Nov 24, 2016 2 min read
Azure Containers

Deploy Docker Containers to Azure Web Apps on Linux

The PaaS (Platform as a Service) offerings within Microsoft Azure have been getting expanded out pretty impressively lately. The “extreme PaaS” that is the serverless…

Nov 18, 2016 4 min read
Development

Fluent API Libraries for Azure .NET SDK

Just as Microsoft is constantly working to update, upgrade and add to the overall Microsoft Azure platform, they are also working to keep updating and…

Nov 9, 2016 5 min read
Azure Compute

What is Serverless Architecture?

One of the latest moves by cloud service providers (like Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS) is the shift to offering “serverless” services. These are Platform…

Nov 3, 2016 5 min read
Certification

MCSD: App Builder Certification (RETIRED)

Along side the Ignite 2016 conference, Microsoft announced some changes to the Microsoft Certified Professional program. These changes outlined 5 new MCSE and MCSD certifications,…

Oct 20, 2016 3 min read
Azure Web

Hosting Azure Web App on Linux

Since the introduction of Azure App Service and Azure Web Apps in early 2015, as well as the Azure Websites feature even earlier, the only…

Oct 19, 2016 7 min read
Microsoft Azure Functions
Azure Compute

How Azure Functions Pricing Works

Serverless computing is a growing trend in cloud computing, and it’s a natural next step in the Platform as a Service (PaaS) area. First PaaS…

Oct 11, 2016 3 min read
Certification

Azure Certification: Where to Start? 2016 Edition

The choice of choosing which certification to obtain can be a tricky one, especially if you’ve never studied for or taken a Microsoft Certification exam…

Sep 29, 2016 8 min read
Certification

MCSA: Cloud Platform Certification (RETIRED)

Among the many Microsoft Certification changes and updates announced around the Microsoft Ignite 2016 conference recently is the addition of the brand new MCSA: Cloud…

Sep 29, 2016 3 min read