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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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Azure Cloud Shell Button WordPress Plugin
Azure Cloud Shell is the web based cmd line tool provided by Microsoft that allows you to launch either a Bash or PowerShell command line in your browser, that is
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Changing an Azure Subscriptions Tenant
The relationship between an Azure Subscription and Azure AD is not always obvious, but each subscription is tied to to an AAD tenant, this allows for authorization of users in
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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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Azure Monitor and Azure Log Analytics – When to use which
Monitoring your resources is vital to being able to detect issues or opportunities for performance improvements. When it comes to Azure the monitoring story can be a bit confusing with
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Using Terraform with Azure – What’s the benefit?
If you’ve been to any cloud or devops conference or meetup in the last year, you’ve probably heard about Terraform, the Infrastructure as Code tool from Hashicorp, it’s been one
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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
