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…
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and service provided by Microsoft. It offers a wide range of cloud services, including computing, analytics, storage, and networking. Azure enables businesses and developers to build, deploy, and manage applications through Microsoft’s global network of data centers. With support for various programming languages, tools, and frameworks, Azure provides solutions for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Known for its strong integration with Microsoft products and services, Azure is designed to provide secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions for enterprises of all sizes.
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Azure SQL: Copy / Backup Database to Local SQL Server using SSMS
Developers often encounter hurdles when managing SQL Azure databases for development and testing. While SQL Azure offers a robust cloud-based solution, it can be costly…
TLDR: Next Gen AI for Developers with Microsoft Cloud by Scott Guthrie at Microsoft Build 2024
Scott Guthrie’s talk, “Next Generation AI for Developers with the Microsoft Cloud,” highlighted significant advancements and tools for developers leveraging AI and the Microsoft Cloud.…
Detect and Handle a Twitter Outage with Azure Logic Apps
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…
PowerShell: Export Azure Resource Groups to ARM Templates
The latest release of Azure PowerShell includes the new “Export-AzureRMResourceGroup” cmdlet. This cmdlet allows you to specify the name of a Resource Group and it…
Azure Icon Update Coming (New Icon Images) in 2019
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…
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…
Tutorial: Create Minecraft Server in Azure on an Ubuntu VM
Setting up a Minecraft server generally takes a bit of work from installing the Operating System, installing Java, to setting up the Minecraft Server to…
Terraform: Create Azure IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service (DPS)
At the core of any Internet of Things (IoT) solution built with Microsoft Azure is the need to connect IoT devices to the cloud and…
Why is the Azure Portal a Web App?
There have been a few incarnations of the Microsoft Azure Management Portal over the years. The current state is a fairly easy to use Web…
Free eBook: Containerized Docker Application Lifecycle with Microsoft Platform and Tools
The “Containerized Docker Application Lifecycle with Microsoft Platform and Tools” free eBook from Microsoft Press, written by Cesar de la Torre, may be the guide…
What is Azure Service Bus?
Microsoft Azure Service Bus provides an PaaS (Platform as a Service) communications platform built to allow more robust, multi-tenant software systems to be built in…
Azure CLI 2.0: Reset / Change Azure VM Password
It’s very easy to spin up a Virtual Machine (VM) in Microsoft Azure. You can do it through the Azure Portal or with scripting tools…
Migrate Between Azure SQL Database and SQL Server
For years it’s been difficult to migrate a database that was built in SQL Server to Microsoft Azure SQL Database. Originally, the T-SQL support in…
Top 10 Web Application Security Risks in Microsoft Azure and Ways to Mitigate Them
In today’s digital landscape, web application security is paramount. As businesses increasingly migrate their operations to the cloud, the importance of safeguarding web applications hosted…
Stopping Azure subdomain takeovers
Have you ever created an Azure web application, created a DNS record from your domain, and then deleted the web app without deleting the DNS…
Microservices Architecture Hands-on Lab: Infrastructure Edition – Microsoft Cloud Workshop
In this hands-on lab, you will construct an end-to-end Proof of concept for ticket ordering based on a microservices architecture based on Service Fabric and…
Azure SQL or SQL Server Database?
There are many things to look at when either migrating an existing application or just building a new application to host on Microsoft Azure. Data…
Phi-3: Microsoft Redefines Small Language Models (SLMs)
In the area of artificial intelligence (AI), the quest for smaller yet powerful language models has been an ongoing pursuit. Microsoft has taken a significant…
Introducing the Azure Administrator Certification Track from Microsoft
Microsoft continually updates the content of the different Microsoft Azure certification exams, but it’s been almost 2 years since they really updated the Microsoft Certification…