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In this post, Senior App Dev Manager Randy Park walks us through Azure Media Services to setup a live streaming PoC. Background: A customer recently launched a global intranet portal with an audience distributed across the globe.  They expected an increase of the audience on a daily basis and leadership team requested one more interesting fe...

In this post, Senior App Dev Manager, Sanket Bakshi spotlights Azure API Management and how it can help with usage throttling.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 influx of requests...

In this post, Senior App Dev Manager Marcus Fernandez sets up a blog using Miniblog.Core and Azure in just a few simple steps.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 more of the co...

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.I came across this concept last weekend when I was reading Tim Harford's "Fifty Inve...

This article on the various tools available to perform tasks in Azure comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Crystal Tenn.There are a lot of tools out there for managing your Azure subscriptions! We have the Portal web page, Visual Studio integration (with the Azure SDK), PowerShell commands, and the Azure CLI. Sometimes it’s hard to know wh...

This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager Nick McCollum, who introduces us to Azure Active Directory B2B collaboration. Azure Active Directory Business to Business (B2B) Collaboration enables your business partners to selectively access your corporate applications. In the original release of the product the invitation experience requir...

In this post, App Dev Managers Edward Fry and Sheldon Ledbetter explorer the practical implications of Logical Regression and how we’re using to solve problems in systems via Machine Learning. Logistic Regression. The very phrase is a mouthful. It's easy to imagine it being used by actors to improve elocution or by math professors to punish ...

In this post, App Dev Manager John Tran explores some important availability concepts you need to consider when moving applications to the cloud.Moving to the cloud forces us to change the way we design and deploy applications.  The traditional way of application development for on premises infrastructure is not the same as development for the...

In this post, Senior ADM Fidelis Ekezue shares insights into similarities and differences between Azure VNets and AWS VPC.It’s important to note that in the cloud, features and capabilities are in a state of constant change to improve services and adapt to industry demands.  To the best of our knowledge, the information in this article is accu...

This post is from App Dev Manager, Omer Amin who spotlights mySQL and POSTgreSQL, both announced at BUILD this year.If you missed the announcement at BUILD earlier this year, Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL provide fully-managed MySQL and PostgreSQL database as-a-service for easy development and deployment using tools and...