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Part II – Kubernetes DevOps : Introduction to Helm

August 13, 2018 Aug 13, 2018 08/13/18
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This is the second post in a multi-part blog series on Kubernetes DevOps using Azure. I am co-authoring this series with the help of my colleague at Microsoft, Daniel Selman. We recently worked on K8s project together and thought to share out learnings. In the last post, you get to know the application that going to be deployed in the Kubernetes cluster. In this post, you will learn about the tool called “Helm”.

Improved Privacy using Homomorphic Encryption

May 15, 2018 May 15, 2018 05/15/18
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In the following post, Premier Developer Consultant Razi Rais gives more insight into how to use homomorphic encryption in the field of healthcare to improve privacy and secure data. Modern encryption schemes like homomorphic encryption (HE) provide higher privacy guarantees compared to the existing schemes. Basically, you don't need to reveal...

Building and Running an Auditing Solution on Blockchain

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

First Look Into Blockchain

December 13, 2017 Dec 13, 2017 12/13/17
Pam Lahoud
There’s been a ton of buzz about Blockchain lately (Bitcoin anyone?) so what better time to highlight this video from Premier Developer consultant Razi Rais on understanding Blockchain technology. Since last year, I have been spending time with customers understanding how blockchain can help them improve/replace existing processes. It’s...

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 ...

Homomorphic Encryption 101

November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17
Pam Lahoud
In this article from his blog, Premier Developer consultant Razi Rais covers some of the basics of a powerful security & privacy tool – homomorphic encryption.I was recently exploring methods for improved privacy using various encryption schemes and stumbled upon Homomorphic Encryption that has a huge potential  in that area. I do ...

DevOps with Containers

September 18, 2017 Sep 18, 2017 09/18/17
Pam Lahoud
This post from Premier Developer consultant Razi Rais talks about his recent Channel9 video series on using Containers for DevOps.Recently I did a video series for Microsoft Channel9 on DevOps with Containers (thanks to Lex Thomas and Chris Caldwell for recording these). The idea was simple- show and tell how container technology can help in ...

Developer’s Guide to Automated Install of ADFS On Windows Server 2016 (TP4)

March 8, 2016 Mar 8, 2016 03/8/16
Pam Lahoud
In a recent article on his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Razi Rais outlines the steps required to set up a developer environment instance of Active Directory Federation Services on the current Technical Preview (TP4) of Windows Server 2016.  Here’s a snippet of Razi’s article, be sure to follow the link to his blog for ...