Contents tagged with Azure
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Fault Domains, private registries and node setup scripts. My DC/OS acs-engine forks
Customers of mine have asked for some additional capabilities for DC/OS clusters created by acs-engine:
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How many assigned users do i have? The Graph API has the answer
My last post about Azure AD was about enabling single sign-on by letting your customers provision your application into their Azure AD tenant. SSO is important to make the end user login experience seamless. Who likes to put in credentials all the time.
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Managing Azure Machine Learning Service with API Management
Azure's Machine Learning service is one of my favorite examples how the cloud makes things easy, that would be really hard to do on premises. You get an idea of the mind boggling things you can build with pattern recognition, sentiment analysis, image processing, etc. when you browse the ML Gallery.
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Setting up Web App Multitenant Azure AD Sample
Multitenancy in Azure AD is a very cool concept with the Consent Framework if you're and ISV or a Service Provider building a cloud service that you're looking to monetize.
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API Management - Plays Well with Other Azure Services
In the first post of the series, we took a quick look at API management for layering a very basic authentication scheme over an existing service. That works great when you have an existing service API with an HTTP interface, but what do you do when your existing service listens on a queue? If it's an Azure Queue or a ServiceBus Queue which expose REST APIs, then you can layer a developer-friendly, strongly typed API over that generic queue API and as a side benefit get usage analytics, enforce call limits and user management beyond the Shared Access Signature Keys you get from the Azure Storage Service.
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Azure API Management - Who's calling?
API Management is one of the lesser explored areas of Azure. Regardless, it's a very powerful service to layer onto your service to add:
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The Third Industrial Revolution - Fueled by The Cloud
It's so early in the days of cloud computing. Many haven't even started to realize the magnitude what this shift could be.
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CFOs, Fiscal Cliff, Cost Transparency and The Cloud
CFOs probably look at the business very differently than IT … that's what I thought joining our CFO John Rex for the Breakfast at the CFO Summit a couple of weeks ago. I was eager to listen and learn what's on a CFO’s mind and how Cloud Strategy plays a role in their thinking.
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WcfTestClient with Windows Azure
One of my customers is working on an Azure WCF service. When wanted to test the service with WcfTestClient, but we ran into some issues. We started the dev fabric and had the WebRole running on port 81. When we went to the WCF service metadata page at http://mybox:5101/ProdKService.svc, we got the expected web page, which states:
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Need Help Migrating to SQL Azure?
Migrating an existing SQL Server database to SQL Azure is a compelling story, but it’s not a trivial task … unless you start with the SQL Azure migration wizard put together by my team mates George and Wade.