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Stream SmartThings data to Cosmos DB and PowerBI Part 3 – Reporting
So far we’ve sent our SmartThings data to event hub, collected this data using Stream Analytics and then stored it in Cosmos DB. In this part were finally going to
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Stream SmartThings data to Cosmos DB and PowerBI Part 2 – Data Storage
In part one of this series, we looked at how we can collect data from SmartThings and send it over to an Azure Event hub. We’re now going to take
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Stream SmartThings data to Cosmos DB and PowerBI
I’ve recently added a whole load of home automation functionality using Samsung’s SmartThings platform. Part of this is a number of sensors to trigger automation based on motion, temperature, open/close
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What is an Azure App Service Plan and what does it do?
A web app in Azure actually consists of two things, an App Service Plan and an App Service, what is not always clear is why they are two things and
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Discover Managed Disk Snapshots
Managed disks brought a number of benefits to Azure VM’s over thee previous method of manually managing storage accounts used for VM disks. One of these features that is often
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You can help improve the Azure Documentation!
When your learning a new technology, like Azure, documentation is key and find inaccurate, out of date or just plain wrong documentation is incredibly frustrating. Microsoft have taken an interesting
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Building an Infrastructure Pipeline Part 3–Build
Don’t forget to check out the other parts in this series: Part 1 – Version Control Part 2 – Testing Part 3- Build Initially this might seem like a bit
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Simplify Azure NSG Rules With Augmented Rules and Service Tags
Historically Azure Network Security Groups (NSG’s) have only allowed you to enter a single value for things things like source or destination IP and source or destination port. This has
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Ignite Azure Update – Day 1
As expected, day 1 of Microsoft’s Ignite conference saw a large number of announcements across all products, including Azure. Below you’ll find my summary of Azure announcements I pulled in
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SMB File Sharing in Azure
In an ideal world, all our cloud applications would be designed from the ground up to work with the cloud, they would be designed to work with cloud principals, make
