INTEGRATE 2024, the Largest Microsoft Integration Tech Conference
On 10 & 11 June 2024, INTEGRATE 2024, the Largest Microsoft Integration Tech Conference was held in Kings Place, London. I attended this conference remotely. This year was the …
Tag: Azure
Github Copilot getting started, a practical developer guide
GitHub Copilot has captured the attention of developers worldwide, promising a revolutionary shift in the way we write code. While the concept sounds enticing, many developers are left wondering, …
The cloud is temporarily full (well, this region anyway)
It is tempting to consider the cloud a limitless of resources that are always available to us to provision our services from. However, that is of course too simplistic. …
Analysis of the January 21 2024 Azure ARM outage
As reported by Microsoft: “Starting at 01:57 UTC on 21 January 2024, customers using Azure Resource Manager might experience errors when trying to access the Azure Portal, Azure Key …
When Azure could not be reached – Analysis of a global Public Cloud Outage
Microsoft provided valuable insight into the behind the scenes situation for a global network incident that happened about a year ago. In this article, I try to summarize my …
Building a simple REST API with Azure Functions V4
Welcome to this guide on building a REST API with Azure Functions V4. In this guide, we’ll walk through the steps to create a simple CRUD API using TypeScript, …
Apache NiFi: Monitoring metrics and provenance events using Azure Log Analytics
There are several cases where you might want to use Azure Log Analytics to monitor your NiFi instances. An obvious one is when NiFi is running in Azure. Azure …
Oracle Cloud’s marching order: win developers’ hearts and minds
There are two public cloud. AWS and Azure. That is not actually the case – but that is how sometimes it may seem. A third cloud is frequently listed …
How to scale and smarten up a real-life energy grid with Azure IoT
In this episode of the IoT Show, we discuss the IoT smart grid project that AMIS Conclusion has created for a customer in The Netherlands. We talk about a …
Continuous Generation and Publication of Docstring Documentation on Azure – using Sphinx, Pydoc, Storage Account and App Service
August 17, 2021
Cloud, Containers, Deployment, Docker, Microsoft Azure, Python, Software Engineering, Technology
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In this blog I will explain how to generate static HTML pages from your projects Pydoc (docstring) comments with Sphinx. Then we are going to host it in an …
Using a Managed Identity with Azure Automation Accounts
Introduction I think that every production environment in Azure uses Automation Accounts for f.e. scheduled tasks. Up to recently, you were forced to use the Run As user to …
Delete play-resources from Azure using runbooks
Learning a new cloud can be frighting: do I configure this right? And, when I click here, don’t I end up with a huge bill at the end of …
How to manage local IoT complexity with Azure IoT Edge
Whenever there is a more complex IoT solution with dependency on local business logic and the need for autonomous operations an edge device is quickly an important part of …
Another week of learning – some fairly personal notes
One of the best parts of my job is the opportunity to learn all the time. A day to loved is a day not lived, a day not laughed …
Getting Started with serverless Azure Static WebApps (React, Angular, Vue, .. + backend)
Azure Static WebApps is a fairly new Azure service, currently in preview. Azure WebApps is a managed, serverless service that allows us to quickly deploy and publicly expose a …
Deploy A Docker Container To AWS With Azure Pipelines
Introduction In response to a demo I gave about deploying a docker container to the Azure platform, I received some questions about deploying a docker container to the AWS …
Connect Azure Pipelines with sonarcloud through maven (YAML)
Introduction Sonarcloud is a static code analysis tool. This means that it checks out the code at your repository, does an analysis and shows you the results. It may …
Deploy Angular and Node.js webapp in Azure Pipelines (part 5)
In the previous article I explained how to set up multiple environments for Azure Pipelines. In this article I will explain how you can deploy the artifacts to the …
On-premise VM’s and Azure Pipelines: Set up with multiple stages in Azure Pipelines (part 4)
In the previous article we discussed how we can build a pipeline and at some tests to it. In this article we’re going to discuss how we can set …
Add tests for Angular and Node.js webapp in Azure Pipelines (part 3)
In the previous article I showed how to build a webapp in the Azure pipeline. In this article I will explain to you how you run tests in your …
Azure Pipeline: Build Angular and Node.js webapp (part 2)
In the previous article, we discussed how we can set up a pipeline with multiple stages in Azure Pipelines. In this article we will discuss how we can build …
Azure Pipelines: Using and set up a webapp (part 1)
This will be the first part 5 part series about Azure Pipelines. In this first part I will explain to you how to set up your Azure Pipeline so …
Azure Pipelines: How to build and test an Angular and Node.js webapp and deploy it to on-premise VM’s using multiple stages (YAML) – Overview
What is Azure Pipelines? Azure pipelines is a free continuous integration/continuous delivery tool from Azure Devops (Microsoft). Not only can it deploy to the azure cloud, it can also …
Mapping Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure core concepts – Part One
All major public clouds are organized in similar ways. However, terms used for certain similar constructs can be (quite) different, or the same terms are used for quite different …
Using bindings to connect Azure Functions to Azure Queue Storage
Recently I started working in the Azure Cloud and I would like to share an example I worked on that helped me understand the possibilities of this cloud environment. …
What is Apache Drill and how to setup your Proof-of-Concept
March 11, 2019
Data Analytics, Big Data, Data Warehousing & BI, Database, Databases, Microsoft Azure, NoSQL
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Apache Drill is a schema-free SQL query engine. Drill supports a variety of NoSQL databases and file systems, including HBase, MongoDB, MapR-DB, HDFS, MapR-FS, Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, …
Blaming and Praising Room Occupiers Using Outlook API, InfluxDB, IoT and Azure serverless functions
At our offices, we suspect that rooms are being booked but go unused when the booker claimed to need it. All of our rooms are equipped with movement (PIR) …
InfluxDB V2.0 – Stack Implementation Proof of Concept
February 25, 2019
Internet Of Things, Cloud, Database, Databases, Frontend technology, Microsoft Azure
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This blogpost will give you detailed instructions and information regarding the InfluxDB stack. Since February 2019 InfluxDB now consists not only the database itself, but also Telegraf, Chronograf and …
Edge Computing with Azure IoT Reference Architecture
This blog will explain what Edge Computing is and why we need this. We also explain the broader concept of Fog Computing.
IoT is silo integration using Azure Reference Architecture
In IoT, we bridge the gap between the physical world and the enterprise IT systems to unlock the data and create real business value.
Minikube on Windows. Hyper-V vs Vagrant/VirtualBox
Kubernetes is a system for running and coordinating containerized applications across a cluster of machines. Minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster and can be used for local development. In …
How to deploy InfluxDB in Azure using a VM service with dedicated storage
October 12, 2018
Database, Cloud, Containers, Databases, Docker, IT, Microsoft Azure, NoSQL
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InfluxDB isn’t natively supported on Azure. This blog post will teach you how to deploy InfluxDB (or any other database) in a VM with a managed disk on …
Oracle, Azure Cloud and licensing with hyperthreading enabled.
Until recently, there was one rule when deploying Oracle software in the Azure cloud: count one Azure CPU Core as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license. But there was …
Zoo of programming languages named after Animals
Have you ever come across the following challenge? You have to name something; your own project, own product, your company, your boat, or even your own child. Coming up …
Oracle Open World 2017; day 1 observations
Just a quick note about day 1 at Oracle Open World. This Sunday traditionally is filled with presentations of usergroups, customers and product management, and at the end of …
Oracle OpenWorld 2017 Review sessie op 31 oktober 2017 – met aandacht voor ….
Van 2 tot 5 oktober vindt in San Francisco Oracle OpenWorld 2017 plaats. In deze week zal de nabije – en verdere – toekomst van Oracle duidelijk worden gemaakt. …
Serverless computing with Azure Functions – interaction with Event Hub
In a previous article, I described my first steps with Azure Functions – one of the implementation mechanisms for serverless computing: Serverless Computing – Function as a Service (FaaS) …
Serverless Computing – Function as a Service (FaaS) – with Azure Functions – first small steps with a Node/JavaScript function
If your application does not have internal state – and sometimes it is handling peak loads of requests while at other times it is not doing any work at …
Docker, WebLogic Image on Amazon EC2 Container Service
This blog series shows how to get started with WebLogic and Docker – in 3 different Clouds: Docker and the Oracle Images Create and run a WebLogic Docker Image …
Docker, WebLogic Image on Microsoft Azure Container Service
This blog series shows how to get started with WebLogic and Docker – in 3 different Clouds: Docker and the Oracle Images Create and run a WebLogic Docker Image …