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Inject Confidential Configuration Data From Azure Key Vault Into Your Application

Jan 23, 2016 · 7 min read

In ASP.NET your site configuration data is normally stored within <appSettings> element of the web.config file. If you have used Azure Web Apps (this blog is running on one), you must be aware of the fact that the Microsoft Azure Web Apps Service allows for these application settings to be configured within the Azure Web App configurations in the cloud, and then subsequently accessed from application code as needed. You can supply these values through Azure Web App configurations.

#azure #security & identity

Running Durable Workflows on Azure

Jan 08, 2016 · 8 min read

This post took a while to see the daylight. I was working on my code submission for Azure Search for Search contest and there were tons of things to catch up on. However, if you are a Windows Workflows developer and are working out ways to host your workflows on Azure or want to transfer control of business logic to your clients using Workflows, I will make up for the delay.

#azure #app service

Analyzing Sentiment of Your Emails with Azure Text Analytics Service

Nov 21, 2015 · 5 min read

Azure Machine Learning allows data scientists to build and deploy predictive models. I am currently reading Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, which in my opinion is a great resource to get started with ML. If you are a developer and don’t really want to invest in learning ML, you can use Azure ML web services published by Microsoft and other publishers in the Cortana Analytics Gallery. There are several interesting APIs, such as speech, face recognition and computer vision, available that you can use in your applications.

#azure #machine learning

Hands-on with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway

Nov 05, 2015 · 9 min read

Cloud Architects tasked to lift and shift workloads frequently face some common challenges. Quite frequently they are handed over application dense servers containing applications which were never meant to scale (metal love) and limited budget and time. Not to forget the fact that the communication channel used by the applications was never secured because the applications were previously accessible only over local network (and maybe in house hacking was not a possibility or maybe internet was not invented till then 😄) and the marketing team sold the idea of a mobile workforce to the customer.

#azure #networking

Building Data Pipelines with Microsoft Azure Data Factory

Oct 25, 2015 · 10 min read

My Google Analytics and Application Insights Telemetry data indicates that it is time for me to thank you for appreciating my articles. If you are reading this, I would like to thank you for your support. I have met many people to whom cloud and its service offerings make little sense. I want to demonstrate how easy it is to get up to speed with using cloud offerings because I find most of the samples available online are a little tough to comprehend.

#azure #analytics

Adding Business Logic to Azure Logic App with Azure API App

Oct 13, 2015 · 7 min read

I hope you had a chance to watch or attend AzureCon lately. If you watch the keynotes, you would be overwhelmed by tons of great announcements that were made. All the sessions are available on demand and are classified by level and industry role. I hope the sessions prove to be a great learning experience for you. I also hope to work with a few of the new features and write about them for us to use.

#azure #compute

Building IoT Solutions with Microsoft Orleans and Microsoft Azure - Part 2

Sep 20, 2015 · 14 min read

Before I start off with the main topic of this post, I would like to let you know that I have added Microsoft Office 365 to my arsenal. Earlier, I was not able to respond to your emails with my email id rahul@rahul-rai.com. However, now this email id has its own inbox and other goodies offered by MS Office 365. Say wassup to me any time you want to connect and I would respond!

#azure #internet of things

Building IoT Solutions with Microsoft Orleans and Microsoft Azure - Part 1

Sep 15, 2015 · 9 min read

In this two-part series I will walk you through building an IOT solution on Microsoft Azure using Microsoft Orleans. The first part is an overview of Microsoft Orleans while the second part will cover building a simple application on Microsoft Orleans and deploying it to Microsoft Azure. Lately, I was involved in training a bunch of my colleagues on the Microsoft Orleans framework. Microsoft Orleans is a framework that provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns.

#azure #internet of things

Handling Scheduled and Continuous Workloads Through Azure WebJobs

Aug 26, 2015 · 8 min read

What are WebJobs? If you have ever built an application of anything more than small scale, you know that you need to have services running in the background that can handle workloads that either are required to execute in the background or are required to run on scheduled intervals. There are several solutions available for this problem in on-premise and cloud worlds. You can use a windows service or have an HTTP endpoint triggered by a cron service such as Windows Task Scheduler to schedule a task.

#azure #app service

Exploring Azure Append Blob By Building a Log Combining Application

Aug 17, 2015 · 6 min read

Recently I got entangled in building a survey solution for this website. I was nearly done when I decided to scrap it. For the now scrapped implementation, I stored survey templates as JSON files in Azure Blob storage. That way I could design my own surveys simply by uploading a survey template. Next, I built logic in MVC to parse the JSON and build controls such as text box, radio button etc.

#azure #storage

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