HashiCorp Terraform is a great Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that helps you deploy and manage IT Resources using declarative code written in HCL (HashiCorp…
In Microsoft Azure, you can assign Tags to Azure Resources to add additional metadata to them. This can be used to enhance the reporting of…
One of the most difficult things in IT is naming things. The same goes for choosing the correct naming convention to use when naming cloud…
Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s scalable, fully managed, serverless NoSQL database as a service offering. The service provides a lot of really great features for…
Microsoft is making changes to their certificates and it is important to understand how these changes will impact your deployments. Azure will be changed to…
It seems Microsoft is having quite a few outages lately. With last weeks Azure AD outage, Microsoft has continued to have some service disruptions this…
Did you know that Microsoft Azure is not just one public cloud? Most of us only interact with the Public Azure Cloud, but this isn’t…
How can there be a single point of failure in a service that runs the entire Microsoft cloud? Yesterday, there was a global outage of…
At approximately 21:25 UTC on September 28, 2020, the Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) started experiencing a global outage causing many users to be…
Microsoft recently released the first preview of the Azure Bicep project which provides a new, more intuitive language for building out infrastructure as code deployments…
Azure Bicep is an abstraction built on top of Azure ARM Templates and Azure Resource Manager that offers a cleaner code syntax with better support…
The new “Developer’s Guide to Azure” eBook published from Microsoft, written by Build5Nines’ own Chris Pietschmann, is your guide to getting started with Microsoft Azure…
Microsoft made a ton of announcements at and around the Microsoft Build 2020 conference. Included in all the announcements was a tone of news surrounding…
Ever wish you had a Docker dev workstation in Azure? About two months ago, we introduced the Azure Kung Fu VM, and judging by the…
For the last few years, Microsoft has stated during event keynotes and in other places that Linux is a rapidly growing operating system (OS) being…
This year at the Microsoft Azure + AI Conference co-produced by Microsoft and DEVintersection, Chris Pietschmann (the founder of BuildAzure.com) will be presenting. The topics of his sessions at the conference will center around Microsoft Azure and the Internet of Things (IoT) with topics including Azure Sphere and Real-time IoT Stream Processing in Azure. This edition of the Azure + AI Conference is being held November 18th through 21st, 2019 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Also, in partnerships with the Azure + AI conference, we are pleased to announce that you can register for the conference with the discount code "BUILDAZURE" to receive a $50 discount.
The AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Solutions Architect. EXAM IS RETIRED: This exam has been…
The AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Solutions Architect. EXAM IS RETIRED: This exam was retired,…
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…
Recently, Microsoft Azure experts Chris Pietschmann and Dan Patrick, in collaboration with Microsoft, have developed the comprehensive Azure Migration Readiness Whitepaper. This essential resource guides…
