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Hands-on with Azure Service Fabric Reliable Services

Nov 01, 2016 · 12 min read

November 1, 2016: Thank you, community. This post was first written in April, 2016 and several parts of the code sample were getting obsolete. The code sample of this post has now been updated to use ASP.Net Core and Service Fabric SDK 2.3. I have revised the content of this blog post to accommodate the changes. Azure Service Fabric, the next generation PaaS from Microsoft, is a platform to publish and manage microservices.

#azure #service fabric

Bring Your Own Protocol (BYOP) to Your Azure Service Fabric Applications

Oct 25, 2016 · 12 min read

Microsoft Azure Service Fabric: There are several reasons to switch to this brand new platform for building distributed systems. For one, Service Fabric can host itself literally anywhere: on your laptop, in your data center, in some else’s data center, on Windows, on Linux… If you are still hugging Cloud Services (that thing with web roles and worker roles), you better mend your acts early, it is getting phased out and will become obsolete soon.

#azure #service-fabric

Moving to Hugo Sticking to Azure

Oct 04, 2016 · 7 min read

I recently completed the migration of my blog to a brand new platform. I primarily went through the upgrade process to remove dependency on Windows Live Writer to author content and to trim down the large number of Azure services that I was using to keep the blog ticking. Of course, I wanted to improve the response time and keep my focus on writing posts and not maintaining the code base.

#azure #app service

Hybrid Identity Solution with Azure AD and Azure AD B2C

Aug 26, 2016 · 13 min read

I am going to retire the current stack of technologies used in this blog in favor of more recent technologies, mainly because I currently author this blog using Windows Live Writer which is outdated and has lost the love of community. I am also taking this opportunity to create a new technology stack that is much more modular and allows me to focus only on writing. I am also learning cool new stuff which might be useful to all of us.

#azure #security & identity

Stop Wasting Your Time Use Auto Hot Key and Nimble Text

Aug 04, 2016 · 6 min read

My long hiatus is over. I have completed my move to Sydney, AU and I have started working with Readify as a Consultant. Sydney is a beautiful city and is endowed with attractions that I am yet to explore. Time is precious and no one wants to do mundane stuff. Using productivity tools, we can get mundane stuff done fast so that we can spend more time doing finer things such as watching more cat videos.

#tools & gadgets

Create IoT Hub with Messaging Configurations with Azure Quick Start Templates & How to Repay Knowledge Debt

Jun 23, 2016 · 3 min read

Okay, this is a bit of self promotion but my ARM template to provision IoT Hub has been merged with the official Azure documentation branch recently. What this means is that now you can visit this link, click on Deploy to Azure button, supply some parameter values and have an IoT Hub provisioned in your subscription. If you want to view the script that is responsible for provisioning the infrastructure, you can view the script in the Azure Quick Start GitHub repository here.

#azure #internet of things

Ditch Your DNS For Microsoft Azure DNS & Moving On

Jun 04, 2016 · 5 min read

This is my last post as Associate Architect at Nagarro. I would be moving to a new location and a new position very soon and therefore, I won’t be posting much for about a month. I’ll have a lot more to say about the new organization that I would be joining once I get there, but for now, let me just say that everyone I’ve met at this new place has seemed smart and passionate.

#azure #networking

Automate Your Life with Microsoft Flow

May 16, 2016 · 6 min read

Microsoft recently launched its own variant of IFTTT named Microsoft Flow. Using Flow, you can create and deploy workflows that connect various apps and services. They are very similar to Azure Logic Apps and use the same grammar to define conditions (as we will soon see). Currently what sets both the services apart is the fact that Flow has a subset of functionalities of Azure Logic Apps available to it and comes with ready to use templates which are easy to deploy.

#azure #automation

Integrating Azure Machine Learning With Azure Stream Analytics to Predict Customer Churn

May 10, 2016 · 7 min read

I covered building IoT Analytics Architecture prototype authored by David Crook from Microsoft in one of my previous posts. David graciously provided some great feedback on the architecture model and asked me to explore yet another aspect of his architecture, that is to take intelligent decisions on the streams of incoming data based on Azure Machine Learning based predictive models. In this post, let’s see how we can integrate MAML with Stream Analytics and extend David’s IoT analytics architecture.

#azure #machine learning #internet of things

Analyze ELMAH Logs of Your Cloud Services on Your Desktop in Real-Time With Azure Files

May 04, 2016 · 7 min read

Azure File storage is a lesser used and lesser known features of Azure storage. Azure File storage offers shared storage for applications using the standard SMB 2.1 or SMB 3.0 protocol. Microsoft Azure virtual machines, cloud services, and on-premises clients can share file data across application components via mounted shares or via File storage API. The most popular use cases of Azure File storage revolve around migrating existing applications to the cloud that use standard file system APIs such as WriteFile or ReadFile.

#azure #storage