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Choosing the right tooling for Azure and side by side Azure CLI and PowerShell commands

November 2, 2017 Nov 2, 2017 11/2/17
Pam Lahoud
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 ...

Getting Started with the Azure AD B2B Invite API

September 29, 2017 Sep 29, 2017 09/29/17
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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 ...

Cloud Design Patterns – Availability

September 20, 2017 Sep 20, 2017 09/20/17
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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 ...

Differentiating between Azure Virtual Network (VNet) and AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

September 17, 2017 Sep 17, 2017 09/17/17
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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 ...

mySQL, POSTgreSQL DBs as a Service

August 9, 2017 Aug 9, 2017 08/9/17
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This post is from App Dev Manager, Omer Amin who spotlights mySQL and POSTgreSQL, both announced at BUILD this year.(image) 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...

Getting Started with Java on Azure

July 12, 2017 Jul 12, 2017 07/12/17
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This post is provided by App Dev Managers, Derrick Sharpe and Andrea Martini, who spotlight the use of Java on Windows Azure.Many people are surprised to hear that running Java on Microsoft Azure is even possible, but there are many large, Java-based production applications running in the Microsoft Cloud. Azure provides numerous resources just...

Computer Vision Made Easy with Cognitive Services

July 6, 2017 Jul 6, 2017 07/6/17
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This post is provide by App Dev Manager, Andrew Kanieski, who takes K9 obedience training to a new level with computer vision and Cognitive Services. Computer vision is truly amazing technology! It can be used to distill rich information from images that can help you breathe life into your applications. Microsoft's Cognitive Services - ...

Azure Stack Getting started resources

June 13, 2017 Jun 13, 2017 06/13/17
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This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager, Guru Satish Piduru with helpful getting started information for Azure Stack.Azure Stack brings the power of Azure, to your datacenter, transforming your datacenter resources into cloud services for maximum agility, all under the control of IT. For developers, Azure Stack provides a unified app ...