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Part 1 – Unlock the Power of Azure Data Factory: A Guide to Boosting Your Data Ingestion Process
Jul 19, 2023
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Part 1 – Unlock the Power of Azure Data Factory: A Guide to Boosting Your Data Ingestion Process

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John Folberth and Joe Fitzgerald share sample guidance for developing and deploying an Azure Data Factory into multiple environments. Introduction In the fast-paced world of cloud architecture, securely collecting, ingesting, and preparing data for health care industry solutions has become an essential requirement. And that's where Azure Data Factory (ADF) comes in. As an Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) cloud service, ADF empowers you to scale-out serverless data integration and data transformation with ease. Imagine being able to effortlessly create data-driven workflows that orchestrate data movem...

The Art of HTTP Connection Pooling: How to Optimize Your Connections for Peak Performance
May 22, 2023
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The Art of HTTP Connection Pooling: How to Optimize Your Connections for Peak Performance

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Ramakrishna Thanniru, Engineering, Optum / United Health Group Pete Tian, Sr Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft Migrating an on-prem system to the public cloud can be a daunting task. While many companies have successfully made the transition, some have struggled with unexpected issues. One common problem is the sudden decrease in transaction speed, which can lead to system crashes and frustrating downtime. The Ops team may find themselves scratching their heads when faced with messages such as "timeout exceptions" or "HTTP 504 Gateway Timeout" in the logs, unsure of how to address these issues. As ...

Hosting Option for OpenEMR in Azure
Mar 24, 2023
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Hosting Option for OpenEMR in Azure

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Cloud Solution Architect, Monu Bambroo, spotlights OpenEMR and various ways to host the service in Azure. OpenEMR is the most popular open source electronic health records and medical practice management solution. OpenEMR is designed to be used by healthcare providers and organizations of all sizes, from small clinics to large hospitals. It is a web-based application that can be accessed from any computer with an internet connection, making it easy for providers to access patient records from anywhere. Open EMR software is also fully customizable, allowing providers to tailor it to their specific needs and...

Azure DevOps Pipelines: Leveraging Stages with YAML Objects
Mar 23, 2023
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Azure DevOps Pipelines: Leveraging Stages with YAML Objects

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John Folberth continues his series on Azure DevOps Pipelines, by Leveraging Stages with YAML Objects. Introduction By now we’ve covered the basics on tasks, jobs, stages, environments, variables and templates for jobs and tasks. It is now time to move towards stage templates. Additionally, to assist with templating we will cover one way to leverage YAML objects which is a key tool when templating up and keeping your pipelines DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself).  To follow along I am leveraging non-ADO code in from Azure IaC Flavors and YAML templates from TheYAMLPipelineOne  Stages Recapping from a previous...

Azure DevOps Pipelines: If Expressions and Conditions
Feb 16, 2023
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Azure DevOps Pipelines: If Expressions and Conditions

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John Folberth continues his series on Azure DevOps Pipelines by taking a deep dive into If Expressions and Conditions. At this stage in the series we’ve talked about tasks, jobs, stages, how to template them, and how to leverage environments in variables. This post will attempt to cover some basics around using if and conditions in your YAML Pipelines.  If Expressions If expressions are simple and easy enough in YAML pipelines, they are a powerful tool. In my experience I have leveraged if expressions to:  The key to unlocking their power is the understanding that an if expression will e...

Developer Support and MSDN/Visual Studio Subscription Benefits
Feb 13, 2023
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Developer Support and MSDN/Visual Studio Subscription Benefits

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Visual Studio provides valuable subscription benefits for building software and creating test environments.  This includes access to installation media, developer tools, online training, Azure/Office 365 subscriptions, and even basic support.  Since most development teams have access to MSDN/Visual Studio Subscriptions, businesses will frequently ask: Why would we need to add Developer Support as part of a Unified Support Contract?  It is important to understand the limited scope of support benefits included with a Visual Studio Subscription.  Some VS subscriptions include incident support made available to...

Azure DevOps Pipelines: Tasks, Jobs, Stages and more!
Jan 21, 2023
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Azure DevOps Pipelines: Tasks, Jobs, Stages and more!

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John Folberth recently contributed a series of Azure DevOps posts in our Tech Community covering a range of Pipeline topics, including Template Tasks, Jobs, Environments, Variables, Jobs, and Stages.  There is a lot of great information, so be sure to check these out. Azure DevOps Pipelines: Tasks, Jobs, Stages When starting in Azure DevOps Pipelines one can immediately become inundated with terminology that may seem foreign or question what pipeline structure will lead to the most flexibility and streamlining of their build/deployment process. This post will focus on the hierarchy of Tasks->Jobs-Sta...

Deploying Kubernetes Cluster on Azure VMs using kubeadm, CNI and containerd
Jan 21, 2023
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Deploying Kubernetes Cluster on Azure VMs using kubeadm, CNI and containerd

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Cenk Caglar and Toros Gökkurt walk through how to deploy Kubernetes clusters on Azure VMs using kubeadm, CNI and containerd. Although managed Kubernetes clusters are great, ready for production, and secure, they hide most of the administrative operations. I remember the days I was working with Kubernetes the hard way repository to deploy on Azure Virtual Machines and I was thinking that there should be an easier way to deploy your cluster. One of the well-known methods is kubeadm which is announced at 2018. Since then, it is part of the Kubernetes and has its own GitHub page. When we were studying for K...

Azure DevOps – Leveraging Pipeline Decorators for Custom Process Automation
Jan 20, 2023
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Azure DevOps – Leveraging Pipeline Decorators for Custom Process Automation

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In this post, Jin Lee explores how Azure DevOps Pipeline Decorators can bridge the gap in a cloud environment with a customer's existing security processes on their on-premises IIS server. Background In the recent pandemic, health institutions all across the world have been pushed to their limits on about every facet. Through this, many such institutions have begun to reprioritize their modernization efforts around their cloud infrastructure to support increasing demands and hedge against uncertainty. As institutions are migrating their existing workloads into the cloud, a common challenge they are faced ...