Awhile back Microsoft had the BizSpark program that offered free Microsoft software for startups. A couple of my own startups were able to get free licenses for Microsoft software and Azure services credits to help get bootstrapped. While BizSpark is no longer around,...
The Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, Florida is only a few short weeks away. The excitement for Microsoft's largest annual conference is heating up, and rumors / expectations are starting to fly around the Internet. With such an exciting time of...
Microsoft updates or refreshed the icon images for their software and services every so often to keep them looking fresh and current with modern icon styling. I was recently tipped off by a tweet from Kasun Rajapakse that the Azure Preview Portal (at...
Azure ExpressRoute is a feature of Microsoft Azure that enables you to setup a direct, private connection from your datacenter to the Microsoft Azure backbone. Microsoft has announced a new capability that will enable Satellite connectivity into Azure ExpressRoute to...
If you’ve been waiting for an Azure Portal Desktop App, then you’ll be happy to learn that Microsoft now has an Azure Portal App for Windows in Preview. It’s unclear when this first became available, but a quick search reveals it’s been available for a few months now. This Azure Portal App allows you to install a desktop experience for the Azure Portal on a Windows machine. It seems to be framing in the Azure Portal website into a desktop app window, but it does feel more native than the browser experience. Plus, it provides all the same features of the Azure Portal; including the Azure Cloud Shell experience!
If you’ve been waiting for an Azure Portal Desktop App, then you’ll be happy to learn that Microsoft now has an Azure Portal App for Windows in Preview. It’s unclear when this first became available, but a quick search reveals it’s been available for a few months now. This Azure Portal App allows you to install a desktop experience for the Azure Portal on a Windows machine. It seems to be framing in the Azure Portal website into a desktop app window, but it does feel more native than the browser experience. Plus, it provides all the same features of the Azure Portal; including the Azure Cloud Shell experience!
As I'm writing this Twitter is down, and it's actually been down for at least 20 minutes now. It's hard to tell exactly how long this Twitter outage will last. Since this doesn't actually happen all that often, I thought I'd profile the site behavior to gather some...
Azure pipeline as a core part of Azure DevOps, it allows for the creation of CI ( Continuous Integration) pipeline in a declarative way using YAML documents, it is also called build pipelines. Since last Build 2019, this capability is also extending to CD ( Continuous...
Cloud Design Patterns offer prescriptive guidance to designing and architecting solutions in the cloud. Microsoft patterns and practices has this infographic available to help you visualize the cloud design patterns for reference. This infographic depicts the most...
Microsoft is building a game streaming network to unlock console quality gaming on any device. Microsoft has realized that not all gamers are going to buy an Xbox. Instead of focusing on building games that can only be played on the Xbox game console, Microsoft is...
The Microsoft Cloud Workshop (MCW) program maintains a number of Workshops that are used to train Microsoft's own Cloud Solution Architects, as well as Microsoft Partners all over the world, how to use Microsoft Azure services. Currently there are a total of 36...
The "Serverless Apps: Architecture, Patterns, and Azure Implementation" eBook, authored by Jeremy Likness, is a guide for cloud native development of applications using serverless compute. This eBook highlights the benefits of serverless architectures, as well as the...
The 70-777 Implementing Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Solutions certification exam tests and validates your expertise in designing, building, and troubleshooting Azure Cosmos DB solutions. The exam is focused around the Azure Cosmos DB database service in the Microsoft...
Internet of Things (IoT) architecture requires a different kind of message queue based communication than other types of software systems or big data solutions. Most of these solutions will implement some type of one-way messaging to integrate the different components...
There's so much competition in the cloud computing space. According to Forbes, the Cloud Providers at the top in the current "Cloud War" are Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM, followed by many other players in the industry. This battle is made up of these major corporations...
One of the largest gaps that Azure has had when compared to the competition has been the lack of high-availability options. The most glaring has been the lack of Availability Zones, which have been available in all the main providers such as AWS, Google and even...
The last few years, RightScale has been surveying organizations and putting together the annual "State of the Cloud Report". The survey includes data collected from 997 technical professionals across a broad cross-section of organizations, and focuses on gathering...
The Microsoft Virtual Security Summit is a 3 hour long, virtual event packed with information on protecting your organization in a mobile-first, cloud-first world. Cybersecurity has become a priority IT concern due to the nearly weekly announcements of cyberattacks....
Studying for all certifications can be difficult, as all you have to go on is a short list of the exam objectives and the services/technologies covered. It’s nice to get some kind of targeted resources or training that is targeted towards the specific certification...
It’s so quick and easy to deploy an application out into Microsoft Azure and make it available for anyone in the world to use. It’s even quicker if you utilize all the Platform as a Service (PaaS) services like Azure App Service (Web Apps, API Apps, Logic Apps, etc)...
Thomson Reuters has released their first Top 100 Global Technology Leaders list to define new criteria for determining leadership in the 21st century. They've already been tracking tons of metrics on companies all around the world for their clients, and have decided...
GitHub keeps on innovating in the source control management and collaboration space. There have been great new features like GitHub Actions recently, as well as GitHub's announcement of acquiring npm. One of the latest things to come out of GitHub is the release of...
Nat Friedman, the CEO of GitHub, announced that GitHub has signed an agreement to acquire npm. "npm, inc." is the company behind the extremely popular Node package manager, the npm Registry, and npm CLI. Through these tools and services offered by npm, they have...
I've been seeing lots of questions about earning the MCSE, MCSD, and MCSA certifications before their exams are retired on June 30, 2020. With the recent Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and all the quarantines and travel restrictions, I've also been getting a few...
Microsoft has announced that a FREE pricing tier of Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL, cloud-scale database engine) is now available. This new free tier is offering the ability to create a new Azure Cosmos DB Account with 400 RU/s and 5 GB storage for free for the lifetime of...
Embedded within Microsoft's announcement of retiring ALL of the MCSE, MCSD, and MCSA certifications (and their associated exams) is the fact that certifications for Windows Server and SQL Server products are gone. As the older technology-based certifications are being...
The AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Solutions Architect. NOTE: The AZ-303 exam is being released soon, and is not yet available. It will be replacing the AZ-300 Microsoft Azure Architect...
The AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Administrator. Candidates should also have a strong understanding of core Azure services, workloads, security, and governance. NOTE: The AZ-104 exam is being...
The AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Developer. This exam tests your expertise across all phases of the Microsoft Azure development process; from solution design, to development and...
Microsoft Learning posted an article that announced some upcoming changes to the Microsoft Azure and Data & AI certifications. These certification exam changes are slated to be released by March of 2020, and affect the Azure Administrator, Azure Developer, Azure...
It's important to use plenty of great study materials when studying for that next Microsoft certification exam. There are many great paid resources available on the video course front. You can always read the official Microsoft documentation too. However, if you need...
The AZ-220 Microsoft Azure IoT Developer certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Internet of Things (IoT) Developer. Passing this exam will earn you the Microsoft Certified: Azure IoT Developer Specialty certification. If you are an IoT...
Microsoft has announced they are moving Azure IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service (DPS) to use Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 as the encryption mechanism of choice. As a result, TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will be deprecated July 1, 2020, and TLS 1.0 / 1.1 will no longer...
It's really easy to provision an instance of Azure IoT Hub using the Azure Portal. However, there are times when you need to automate the task. You can use the Azure CLI to create new instances of Azure IoT Hub when you need to automate the task. This can help with...
Azure IoT Hub provides the cloud messaging service for building Internet of Things (IoT) solutions in the cloud using Microsoft Azure. There are a few other options for messaging services within Microsoft Azure, but the Azure IoT Hub service is the only service that's...
In this lab, you will learn how to build and configure an Internet of Things (IoT) Audit Solution using Azure blockchain services. You will collect device telemetry using Azure IoT Hub and use Ethereum blockchain ledger to enforce contract specifics related to...
This book will guide you through choosing which certification path(s) to follow you’re your unique career goals and technical background. It’ll also explore all the different certifications Microsoft offers, as well as many of your questions, like:
Microsoft and cloud certification helps you keep up-to-date on the latest technologies in a structured, easy to follow path, that is also verifiable by your peers and future career opportunities.
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure...
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure...
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure...
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure...
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure...
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure...