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Docker Blog Series Part 5 – Understanding new container management features in Service Fabric

February 16, 2018 Feb 16, 2018 02/16/18

Pam Lahoud

In the latest post in his Docker series, Premier Developer consultant Monu Bambroo talks about some of the new features in Service Fabric regarding container management. Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers. Service Fabric ...

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 ...

DevOps and Finance

February 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018 02/14/18

Pam Lahoud

Premier Developer consultant Ron Vincent recently posted this article on the relationship between Finance and modern software development practices such as Agile and DevOps.  It’s an interesting discussion of how you can bring finance and planning along on your DevOps journey.I know, who wants to talk about finance when it comes to ...

One user scenario to rule them all

February 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018 02/14/18

Sergey Tepliakov

The async series Almost every non-trivial behavior of the async methods in C# can be explained based on one user scenario: migration of the existing synchronous code to asynchronous should be as simple as possible. You should be able to add keyword before a method's return type, add suffix to its name, add keyword here ...

LUIS & Speech API Integration

February 13, 2018 Feb 13, 2018 02/13/18

Pam Lahoud

Ever wondered how to integrate speech and AI into your application?  It’s easy with this tutorial from Premier Developer consultants Adel Ghabboun and Kunal Sinha! Have you ever wondered what are some of the technologies behind personal home assistants such as Cortana, Alexa and Home? Whether you want to tell your personal AI to open...

Building and Running an Auditing Solution on Blockchain

February 12, 2018 Feb 12, 2018 02/12/18

Developer Support

If you are in the NYC area on Feb 21, Premier Developer consultant Razi Rais will be hosting an event to demonstrate how to build and run a fully functional blockchain based audit trail application. The first half is a good fit for both business and technical audiences, as it covers auditing scenarios using blockchain. The latter half will ...

PolyBase – How SQL Server does Big data!

February 12, 2018 Feb 12, 2018 02/12/18

Developer Support

In this post, Senior App Dev Manager Nayan Patel introduces SQL Server PolyBase and shares some insights from a recent engagement using the technology.I was recently involved in helping my customer complete a successful PoC around SQL Server 2016’s PolyBase feature.  They have invested a signification amount of budget and resources ...

Microsoft Professional Program for Data Science – Sharpen Your Data Science Skills

February 11, 2018 Feb 11, 2018 02/11/18

Developer Support

In this post, Senior App Dev Manager Pete Fuenfhausen breaks down the concept of Data Sciences and provides a walk through of free training track to get oriented with the technologies Microsoft offers in this space. These days it’s pretty hard to be an application developer without running into concepts like big data, data science, ...

Partner Center API’s

February 10, 2018 Feb 10, 2018 02/10/18

Developer Support

In this post, Senior App Dev Manager Deepak Malik, explains how Partner Center API’s provide extensive management functionalities and enable partner to extend their existing systems.The Partner Center REST API helps Cloud Solution Provider partners (CSP's) integrate their existing CRM or billing systems with the Microsoft systems to manage ...

Designing a Cosmos DB database

January 31, 2018 Jan 31, 2018 01/31/18

Pam Lahoud

Premier Developer consultant Julien Oudot brings us this blog with some considerations when designing a Cosmos DB database. The intent of this article is to summarize some of the key aspects to keep in mind while designing a database using Cosmos DB. Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model database. Sometimes ...