Simon Bisson
A new wave of Azure services lifts Kubernetes and Cosmos DB
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May 7, 2019
A new wave of Azure services lifts Kubernetes and Cosmos DB
Microsoft has starting referring to itself as a three-cloud company. There’s the Xbox gaming cloud, Microsoft 365 productivity services, and,…
Microsoft to Windows devs: You’re all Microsoft 365 developers now
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May 6, 2019
Microsoft to Windows devs: You’re all Microsoft 365 developers now
Microsoft’s Build 2019 is focusing on development on three different clouds—on Microsoft Azure, on Microsoft’s new gaming cloud, and on…
Writing server-side code in Azure Cosmos DB
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April 30, 2019
Writing server-side code in Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft’s cloud-scale distributed database, is designed to offer the APIs and the storage model you need for…
Exploring ASP.Net Razor: Putting C# in your HTML
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April 23, 2019
Exploring ASP.Net Razor: Putting C# in your HTML
Microsoft’s Active Server Pages have been around a long time; launching back in the early days of the web. Since…
Move data to the cloud with Azure Data Migration
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April 16, 2019
Move data to the cloud with Azure Data Migration
Despite more than a decade of cloud migration, there’s still a vast amount of data running on-premises. That’s not surprising…
Xamarin.Forms 4.0: Microsoft’s new approach to mobile UI
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April 9, 2019
Xamarin.Forms 4.0: Microsoft’s new approach to mobile UI
Because Microsoft no longer makes any mobile devices doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a mobile strategy. It’s strategy is to…
How to use anomaly detection in Azure machine learning
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April 2, 2019
How to use anomaly detection in Azure machine learning
One key part of Microsoft’s big bet on machine learning is that these technologies need to be democratized, turned into…
Serverless computing in Azure: How to build a petition site
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March 26, 2019
Serverless computing in Azure: How to build a petition site
The other day, I found myself watching a ticker on a petition site slowly roll over at a million signatures.…
Open Computer Project and Azure: hardware meets software
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March 19, 2019
Open Computer Project and Azure: hardware meets software
Microsoft has been a member of the Open Compute Project since 2014, donating many of the specifications for its Azure…
How and why to use blob storage in Azure
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March 12, 2019
How and why to use blob storage in Azure
When it comes to building applications on the public cloud, you’re spoiled for storage. You’ve got SQL, NoSQL, graph databases,…
How Azure Maps differs from Bing Maps for developers
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March 5, 2019
How Azure Maps differs from Bing Maps for developers
There’s a dilemma facing anyone wanting to build a map app on a Microsoft platform: The company currently has two…
How to create apps that work together across Windows, iOS, and Android
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February 19, 2019
How to create apps that work together across Windows, iOS, and Android
Microsoft may not have a mobile OS any more, but that doesn’t mean it’s abandoned the mobile market. Instead it’s…
How to use Azure Data Explorer for large-scale data analysis
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February 12, 2019
How to use Azure Data Explorer for large-scale data analysis
One of the big issues facing anyone building a data-driven devops practice is, quite simply, the scale of the data…
Get started with PostgreSQL on Azure
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February 5, 2019
Get started with PostgreSQL on Azure
Azures collection of open source data tools includes the popular PostgreSQL database. Postgres began its life in the mid-1980s as…
Blazor now runs on a server: What you should know
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January 29, 2019
Blazor now runs on a server: What you should know
It’s a year or so since Microsoft unveiled Blazor, its tool for running .Net code in the browser. It’s been an…