by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 24, 2019 | Architecture, Big Data, Blockchain, Certification, Development, DevOps, Infrastructure, Internet of Things, Open Source, serverless, Training
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...
by Chris Pietschmann | Jul 14, 2018 | Architecture, Book, serverless
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...
by Chris Pietschmann | Sep 7, 2017 | Architecture, Featured, Infrastructure, serverless, Service Bus
In the early days of Microsoft Azure, there were only a couple message queue service; Azure Storage Queue and Service Bus. This was way back in early 2010. Over the years, there have been a few different messaging and message queue services introduced into the...
by Chris Pietschmann | Aug 17, 2017 | Development, serverless
Azure Functions is the Serverless compute option within the Microsoft Azure platform. One of the biggest benefits of Azure Functions, and Serverless compute, is that you only pay when your code is actually executing. However, there has been a limitation of Azure...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 8, 2017 | Featured, serverless
There are a few choices when it comes to implementing custom background processing tasks. The main options in the Microsoft Azure cloud are to use either Azure Functions or Azure Web Jobs. Functions are newer, cooler, and may seem to be the obvious choice going...
by Chris Pietschmann | Dec 14, 2016 | Development, serverless
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 v1.0 release. Microsoft has not stopped there, in fact they just recently...
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