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Delivering IoT Mixed Reality Applications using The MSF Process Model (Envision and Plan) – Part 1

Jun 24, 2018 · 15 min read

In this series Envision and Plan Develop and Stabilize Develop, Stabilize, and Deploy Delivery of enterprise scale projects requires a cohesive and structured framework in place. A robust delivery framework ensures that projects are carefully planned, and roles and tasks are identified and defined. Microsoft has developed a set of principles, models, disciplines, concepts, and guidelines for delivering information technology services known as Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF).

#azure #internet-of-things #mixed-reality

Building Zero Code Cosmos DB Proxy with Azure Functions

May 09, 2018 · 7 min read

Using Azure Functions, you can free your projects from Cosmos DB API dependency. In this article, we will build a simple API using Azure Functions that interacts with Cosmos DB without requiring you to write any code. You have multiple options for building Azure Functions. You can write functions using Visual Studio tooling, or you can build one using VS Code with Azure CLI. However, for this demo, I will use the Azure Portal inbuilt function editor.

#azure #compute

Building Applications with Azure IoT Edge

Apr 25, 2018 · 13 min read

I recently presented a session on building applications with Azure IoT Edge at the Global Azure Bootcamp, Sydney. In the field of IoT, edge analytics is not just important; it is a necessity. Azure IoT Edge solves a lot of edge analytics challenges in a unique manner that many organizations face. Azure IoT Edge brings the power of essential cloud services from the cloud to your on-premise devices. You can deploy either Azure service logic or your code to devices from the cloud interface without physically accessing the device.

#azure #internet-of-things

Building and Testing Reactive Microservices in Azure with Event Grid, Azure Functions, and Ngrok

Apr 12, 2018 · 10 min read

According to the Reactive Manifesto, a reactive system should have some essential characteristics which include: responsiveness, resiliency, elasticity, and being message-driven. Out of all the aspects, the most significant differentiating factor of Reactive Microservices from others is its characteristic of being message-driven. Using messages as the glue that holds your Microservices application together, you can design systems that isolated. High degree of isolation also helps enhance the scalability of a system which is an essential aspect of a Microservices application.

#azure #integration

Visualize Performance of Your Bots With The Ibex Dashboard

Feb 12, 2018 · 4 min read

I recently finished building a bot using the Microsoft Bot Framework for a major client. One of the standard requirement of the clients that develop Bot applications is to have bot-specific monitoring in place. Managing the bot that you have built involves adding monitoring and management capabilities to it. Adding monitoring and management aspects to your bot ensures that your bot implementation will be successful in the long run. There are three services supported by the Bot Framework to bake monitoring and management capabilities in your bot.

#azure #bot-framework

Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework - Part 5

Nov 10, 2017 · 4 min read

In this series Introduction Adding Dialogs and State to your bot Using Form Flow Adding intelligence to your bot using LUIS Publishing your bot Welcome to the final post in my series of blogs on Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework. Till now we were building our bot and adding features to it. In this article, we will be publishing our bot and later chat with our bot on Skype.

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Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework - Part 4

Oct 22, 2017 · 10 min read

In this series Introduction Adding Dialogs and State to your bot Using Form Flow Adding intelligence to your bot using LUIS Publishing your bot Welcome to the fourth post in my blog series on Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework. In this article, we will see how we can configure LUIS to bring Natural Language Processing capabilities to our application. LUIS uses Intents, Entities, and Utterances to build its NLP models.

#azure #bot-framework

Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework - Part 3

Sep 14, 2017 · 8 min read

In this series Introduction Adding Dialogs and State to your bot Using Form Flow Adding intelligence to your bot using LUIS Publishing your bot Welcome to the third post in my blog series on Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework. In the last post, we saw how we could use Dialogs and State to carry out a meaningful conversation with the user. However, we also saw that interacting with the user using Dialogs involves a lot of complexity.

#azure #bot-framework

Now Available: Microservices with Azure

Jul 07, 2017 · 1 min read

It has been months since my friend Namit and I have been working on bringing to life a comprehensive book on Microservices applications specifically targeted for deployment in the cloud. We realized how the community is too keen to get started with Microservices, but there is so little guidance available on the subject. We studied several real-world implementations and documented the learnings as a set of patterns that help solve some of the most common challenges architects face while designing Microservices applications.

#azure #cloud-patterns

Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework - Part 2

May 19, 2017 · 9 min read

In this series Introduction Adding Dialogs and State to your bot Using Form Flow Adding intelligence to your bot using LUIS Publishing your bot Welcome to the second post in my blog series on Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework. In today’s post, we will learn how we can build a stateful bot that can carry out a meaningful conversation with the user. We will also find out how Dialogs can add reusability to our bots.

#azure #bot-framework