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End-to-end CI/CD automation using Azure DevOps unified Yaml-defined Pipelines
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...
Cloud Design Patterns Infographic
Cloud Design Patterns offer prescriptive guidance to designing and architecting solutions in the cloud. Microsoft patterns and practices has this...
Microsoft xCloud: Azure Powered Game Streaming
Microsoft is building a game streaming network to unlock console quality gaming on any device. Microsoft has realized that not all gamers are going...
Microsoft Cloud Workshops: Free Microsoft Azure Hands-on Lab Guides
The Microsoft Cloud Workshop (MCW) program maintains a number of Workshops that are used to train Microsoft's own Cloud Solution Architects, as well...
Azure Icon Downloader Chrome Extension
I've written previously about the zip download of the Azure Icons available from Microsoft. That download has .png, .svg, and some other formats of...
IoT Security Architecture: Trust Zones and Boundaries
There are many aspects to architecting an Internet of Things (IoT) solution. Security is probably the most important aspect of any computer system,...
Upgrade to New Azure Certifications with Transition Exams, retiring June 2019!
Recently, Microsoft announced some major changes to their certification program. These changes include retiring many of the existing certifications...
AZ-301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification Exam
The AZ-301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Architect around Azure administration,...
AZ-300 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies Certification Exam
The AZ-300 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Architect around Azure...
Introducing Role-based Microsoft & Azure Certification Shakeup
Last July, Microsoft Learning announced some upcoming changes to the Microsoft Azure Certifications to make them more role-based. Recently,...
New Microsoft Azure Certification Paths Coming in 2018
Microsoft announced, at Inspire 2018, some additions and changes to the Microsoft Certifications surrounding the Microsoft Azure cloud that are...
eBook: Serverless Apps: Architecture, Patterns, and Azure Implementation by Jeremy Likness
The "Serverless Apps: Architecture, Patterns, and Azure Implementation" eBook, authored by Jeremy Likness, is a guide for cloud native development...
70-777 Implementing Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Solutions Certification Exam
The 70-777 Implementing Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Solutions certification exam tests and validates your expertise in designing, building, and...
Internet of Things (IoT) Messaging Architecture
Internet of Things (IoT) architecture requires a different kind of message queue based communication than other types of software systems or big...
Polynimbus is the future of the cloud
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...
Azure Availability Zones
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...
2018 Cloud Growth Profiled in RightScale State of the Cloud Report
The last few years, RightScale has been surveying organizations and putting together the annual "State of the Cloud Report". The survey includes...
Microsoft Virtual Security Summit 2018
The Microsoft Virtual Security Summit is a 3 hour long, virtual event packed with information on protecting your organization in a mobile-first,...
Book: Exam Ref 70-535 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions
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...