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Big Data

Blockchain Technology is Revolutionizing Enterprises and Shaping the Future Beyond Cryptocurrency

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 6, 2023

The term "Blockchain" has been gaining a lot of buzz; especially in more recent time. It all started with Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies but has taken...

Azure CLI: Add/Remove IP Addresses on Azure Synapse Firewall

by Chris Pietschmann | Jul 20, 2022

Recently, I performed a lot of work as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer on a project that utilizes Azure Synapse for a large data...

Lambda Architecture for IoT and Big Data Systems

by Chris Pietschmann | Nov 28, 2019

Lambda Architecture is a data processing design pattern designed for Big Data systems that need to process data in near real-time. This pattern...

Microsoft Ignite 2019 Rumors and Predictions: What’s coming?

by Chris Pietschmann | Oct 17, 2019

The Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, Florida is only a few short weeks away. The excitement for Microsoft's largest annual conference is...

NoSQL vs SQL: Demystifying NoSQL Databases

by Chris Pietschmann | Jul 16, 2019

There's a lot of talk about NoSQL being the database of the future. Let's take a look at NoSQL vs SQL databases, and what the differences are, use...

Microsoft Blockchain Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF) Released

by Chris Pietschmann | May 7, 2019

It's been about a year and a half since Microsoft first announced the Coco Framework they've been working on. It's been about a full year longer...

Azure Blockchain Development Kit for Ethereum Released

by Chris Pietschmann | May 6, 2019

Microsoft has been investing a lot into the development of Blockchain based technology. Azure Blockchain is the cloud offering that's part of making...

Microsoft Cloud Workshops: Free Microsoft Azure Hands-on Lab Guides

by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 24, 2019

The Microsoft Cloud Workshop (MCW) program maintains a number of Workshops that are used to train Microsoft's own Cloud Solution Architects, as well...

Top 13 Cosmos DB Features Coming Soon as of March 2019

by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 26, 2019

Azure DocumentDB, ahem... I mean Azure Cosmos DB is the globally distributed, highly available, NoSQL, database-as-a-service offering from...

70-777 Implementing Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Solutions Certification Exam

by Chris Pietschmann | Jul 13, 2018

The 70-777 Implementing Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Solutions certification exam tests and validates your expertise in designing, building, and...

70-475 Big Data Analytics Exam – Feb 2017 Update

by Chris Pietschmann | Jul 27, 2017

The 70-475 Designing and Implementing Big Data Analytics Solutions certification exam was first published Oct. 27, 2015. Many features and services...

MCSA: Machine Learning Certification from Microsoft

by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 13, 2017

It seems there is constant news on the Microsoft certification front. Near the end of 2016, Microsoft shook up the entire MCP program with some...

Microsoft Professional Program (MPP) Expanding with More Tracks

by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 25, 2017

The Microsoft Professional Program (MPP) is the most recent program from Microsoft to provide training and an educational platform in an effort to...

70-773 Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R Certification Exam

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 16, 2017

In the effort of expanding out the breadth of certification offerings, Microsoft has added the Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R (70-773) exam....

70-775 Perform Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure HDInsight Certification Exam

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 10, 2017

On of the hottest topics and technology areas in the industry is Big Data. Azure HDInsight is one of the services within the Microsoft Azure...

70-774 Perform Cloud Data Science with Azure Machine Learning Certification Exam (20774)

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 9, 2017

Machine Learning is one of the hottest topics and technologies in the industry right now. Machine Learning is being used to combine with Big Data to...