Category Archives: Azure
An Apple A Day – Day 30
My Journey to Center of Apple Due to not being able to use devices at the summit, I took the weekend to collate all the data about my experiences, pricing, and investments, etc. So that I could lay it all out for you. For those of you who are skipping to the end to see the…
Azure Service Bus, Cheaper By The Hour
A new announcement from Microsoft shows how the billing for Azure Service Bus is changing from daily and monthly to hourly billing for standard and premium tiers; thus moving them closer to a usage model that closes the pricing gap between constantly used resources and rarely used resources. One thing I’ve always loved about Microsoft…
2018 – Azure Global Bootcamp Survey Results
SURVEY OVERVIEW SURVEY RESPONSE SUMMARY
ARM Templates For MAC – A Call For Feature Parity
Call To Action Come one, come all. We are rallying for Microsoft to add features to allow Mac users of Visual Studio 2017 and onward to install the Azure SDK installation bundled with PowerShell so Mac users will be able to deploy ARM templates as they would in Windows. The Case For those of you…
Azure Monitor Voice Calling, Coming To A Cell Phone Near You!
Finally, a feature that I have long awaited….. Azure Monitor Voice Call is not in GA! So for those not familiar with Azure Monitor, there are some really great features that allow for plugging into the monitoring infrastructure to fire certain events. Such as using alerts to trigger automated actions like autoscale, webhooks, emails, or…
I can see clearly now, the console’s on!
Azure has finally released a public preview of a long anticipated feature: Virtual machine serial console This is an amazing day for a lot of reasons, the first being we will finally have visibility what happens on the machines before the OS loads! With a few clicks you will also now have access to the…
Azure DevOps Projects – Part 1
People often ask me why I choose Azure and what’s so great about it. Being in the DevOps field I always lead with the fact that not only does Windows support Windows services as PaaS for virtually every area of IT, they also support a very broad set of other languages as well. Gone are…
Service Bus Scripts
Azure Service Bus is an easy and simple way to get started in the cloud messaging space when you need a highly-reliable cloud messaging service between your applications and services. I recently had someone ask if there were some simple scripts they could use to get started as they weren’t too interested in the portal…
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