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Walk-through of using SSH to connect Azure VM Jump Servers

February 15, 2018 Feb 15, 2018 02/15/18
Pam Lahoud
In this post, Premier Developer consultant Kurt Schenk walks us through setting up an SSH connection to Azure using a jumpbox. Using SSH to access resources is becoming increasingly common for Windows users. Some typical scenarios are connecting to Linux VMs from Windows development computers; another common one is using SSH to connect ...

Amazon Alexa Skills authenticated by Azure Active Directory and backed by an Azure Function

January 25, 2018 Jan 25, 2018 01/25/18
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This post is provided by Premier Field Engineer, Nathan Vanderby, who walks us through how to write an Alexa skill using Azure Functions.  Last updated June 2018. Most people have heard of the Amazon Echo and the skills that provide it functions. Amazon makes it really easy to create these skills using an AWS Lambda function. These can...

Getting Started with Ethereum using Azure Blockchain

January 24, 2018 Jan 24, 2018 01/24/18
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In this post, Senior ADM Mike Finley discusses how to get started with Ethereum and Azure Blockchain.What is Blockchain? At the most basic level of understanding, blockchains are a simple approach to a distributed database. A blockchain is a peer-to-peer system with no central authority managing data flow. One of the key ways to removing ...

Optimize your Azure spend

January 11, 2018 Jan 11, 2018 01/11/18
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In this post, App Dev Manager Priti Kalani shares insight toward optimizing the services you deploy and manage in the Microsoft cloud.Azure tools to optimize and manage your cloud spendingAzure has made deploying cloud infrastructure and applications convenient and productive for organizations. Azure also provides tools to help you with ...

Amazon Alexa Skills authenticated by Azure Active Directory and backed by ASP.NET Core 2.0 Web API hosted on Azure

December 9, 2017 Dec 9, 2017 12/9/17
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This post is provided by Premier Field Engineer, Nathan Vanderby, who walks us through how to write an Alexa skill using .NET core and AAD.  Lasted updated, June 2018. Amazon's Echo devices and Alexa assistant need no introduction. In this post I lay out how you can write an Alexa skill and use a .NET core 2.0 API backend service to ...

Creating Developer’s Docker Linux Virtual Machine on Azure

December 6, 2017 Dec 6, 2017 12/6/17
Pam Lahoud
This post on creating Linux virtual machines with Docker in Azure comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Razi Rais.For an upcoming developer event on Docker I had to create handful of Linux Ubuntu virtual machines on Azure with Docker and few additional software installed on it.I looked into couple of ways to to do that on Azure in a ...

API Management: Quota versus Rate Limits

December 1, 2017 Dec 1, 2017 12/1/17
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In this post, Senior App Dev Manager, Sanket Bakshi spotlights Azure API Management and how it can help with usage throttling.(image) Azure API Management provides really good capabilities for usage throttling. This is useful in scenarios such as defending against a denial of service attack and protecting back-end services against a huge ...

Blog of Blogging

November 23, 2017 Nov 23, 2017 11/23/17
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In this post, Senior App Dev Manager Marcus Fernandez sets up a blog using Miniblog.Core and Azure in just a few simple steps.(image) Miniblog.Core a project by Mads, on the VS \ .NET team at MS, thank you.  I have been exploring dotnet core since it was released and I really like the idea of a more micro-architecture.  You control ...

Cloud Computing + Modern DevOps == Productivity Gains

November 22, 2017 Nov 22, 2017 11/22/17
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In this post,  App Dev Manager, Omer Amin reminds us that thinking about old problems in new ways is critically important for maximizing the benefits of the cloud.  The Productivity Paradox...When new tools promise higher productivity, but fail to deliver.(image) I came across this concept last weekend when I was reading Tim Harford'...