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    Stream SmartThings data to Cosmos DB and PowerBI Part 3 – Reporting

    samcogan8th April 20180

    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

    samcogan4th April 20180

    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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  • Smart Home

    Stream SmartThings data to Cosmos DB and PowerBI

    samcogan1st April 20180

    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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  • Azure

    What is an Azure App Service Plan and what does it do?

    samcogan12th March 20180

    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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  • Azure

    Discover Managed Disk Snapshots

    samcogan16th February 20180

    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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  • Azure

    You can help improve the Azure Documentation!

    samcogan9th February 20180

    When your learning a new technology, like Azure, documentation is key and find inaccurate, out of date or just plain wrong documentation is incredibly frustrating.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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  • ARM

    Building an Infrastructure Pipeline Part 3–Build

    samcogan29th January 20180

    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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  • Azure

    Simplify Azure NSG Rules With Augmented Rules and Service Tags

    samcogan19th January 20180

    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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  • Azure

    Ignite Azure Update – Day 1

    samcogan26th September 20170

    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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  • Azure

    SMB File Sharing in Azure

    samcogan1st July 20171

    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

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