According to Microsoft, Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation meet business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using various tools and frameworks.
From DevOps to business analytics to the Internet of Things, Azure is designed to have users up and running quickly with a scalable, cost-effective solution that works with your existing investments.
This cloud computing service is a big part of Microsoft’s business, and it competes with similar services from Amazon and Google.
Therefore, our Azure Category is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.Benjamin Franklin Azure security can sometimes be really complex to put your head around. Good understanding of fundamentals and deep desire to troubleshoot issues can come to one’s rescue. Though I am working on Azure Cloud for few years now but the pace at which it is evolving… READ MORE
Finally, Durable Entities are now supported with Netherite Storage Provider in .NET Isolated Azure Durable Functions. While durabletask-netherite: 1.5.1 says it added support for isolated entities, unfortunately, it does not work (microsoft/durabletask-netherite/issues/390: System.NotSupportedException: Durable entities are not supported by the current backend configuration). We need Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Extensions.DurableTask.Netherite version 1.5.3 (at least) for this to work. Now let’s look at how to configure Netherite Storage Provider in a… READ MORE
Your Azure Migration Project Is Doomed To FAIL! Webinar Description: This webinar will explain the difference between “cloud adoption” and “cloud migration”. Too many organisations mix up the two and jump straight to migration. As a result, they forget to make the necessary changes to people, processes, and tools. The migration might succeed – but… READ MORE
In this blog, we will explore how to use Azure AI Search in conjunction with Azure OpenAI, LlamaIndex, and TruLens to build a robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) evaluation system. This tutorial is inspired by Dr. Andrew Ng’s DeepLearning.AI course “Building and Evaluating Advanced RAG Applications”with instructors Jerry Liu (Co-Founder of LlamaIndex) and Anupam Datta (Co-Founder of TruEra, recently… READ MORE
How To Deploy a Linux Virtual Machine on Azure Using Terraform In this demo, Patrick guides viewers through the process of deploying a Linux virtual machine (VM) on Microsoft Azure using Terraform, a popular infrastructure as code (IaC) tool. The demonstration is unique in that it utilises a customised development environment, specifically a container, hosted… READ MORE
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services, including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence, over the internet (“the cloud”). Cloud platforms offer on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Using cloud platforms has several… READ MORE
Introduction: Azure Functions let you use Visual Studio to create local C# function projects and then easily publish this project to run in a scalable serverless environment in Azure. This helps us in analysing/publishing the results directly into Azure Data Explorer or Azure Blob Storage and App Insight Logs where we can create a workbook… READ MORE
Uploading a File to Azure DevOps using Power Automate Introduction In this blog post, we’ll explore how to automatically upload a file to an Azure DevOps repository when a new attachment is added to a SharePoint record. You can choose your desired trigger. We’ll use Power Automate to achieve this integration. Prerequisites Before you begin,… READ MORE
Microsoft Fabric is the latest buzz in the tech world, with companies actively discussing its adoption. Now is the perfect time to evaluate if Microsoft Fabric is suitable for your organization. This blog aims to provide insights for decision-makers, database administrators, DWH developers, SQL Server, and Azure Synapse developers. Evaluating Microsoft Fabric DWH for Your… READ MORE
Microsoft recently announced a public preview of User-Defined Route (UDR) management using Azure Virtual Network Manager. I’ve taken some time to play with it, and here are my thoughts. Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) AVNM has been around for a while but I have mostly ignored it up to now because: Connectivity was missing something – the… READ MORE
