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Cosmos DB: Recommended Usage Patterns
Cosmos DB is a cloud-native, geo-distributed, highly scalable schema-less database provided by Microsoft Azure. Cosmos DB achieves cloud-scale horizontal scalability by utilizing a partitioning scheme....
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Live Streaming for Devs
Why Stream? If you don’t have school-aged children, you might not know that live streaming is the hot thing at the moment. Imagine telling your younger self that you could not only get paid for playing...
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Controlling Sensitive Output from Azure Pipelines Deployment Scripts
Introduction Unfortunately, Azure DevOps does not have a SaaS offering running in Azure Government. The only options are to spin up Azure DevOps server in your Azure Government tenant or connect the...
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A Use Case for Containers in a Multi-Platform Environment
I support projects where we have platforms like SharePoint, are looking towards adopting PowerApps, and have Azure Government subscriptions. While learning about containers, I wondered where they could...
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Azure API Management and Custom Connectors
Summary To break this series apart into more manageable chunks, in this installment, we’ll focus on setting up the API in Azure API Management (APIM) and the custom connector. If you missed the first...
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Power Apps DevOps Using Best Practices
Assumptions This write up is executed in sequence in that if you jump to a section, it assumes you have completed the parts before it. This write-up assumes the following; You have a Power Apps tenant...
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Things to Consider when Presenting at a Conference
How do you know you’re ready to present at a conference? You may have a good understanding of how something works, or you can build and explain how you reached a specific solution. I’m writing this...
View ArticleAIS is Now an Authorized Reseller of M365 GCC High
AIS is now one of few partners that can offer your organization cloud licensing across Azure Commercial, Azure Government Cloud, M365, M365 Government Community Cloud (GCC), and M365 GCC High. As a...
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Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB
Bridging the gap between serverless OLTP and Analytics Cosmos DB is unabashedly a document-based Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) system. It was engineered at its core to provide low latency,...
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Building a Web Scraper in an Azure Function
Web development is arguably the most popular area of software development right now. Software developers can make snappy, eye-catching websites, and build robust APIs. I’ve recently developed a...
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Cosmos DB: Recommended Usage Patterns
Cosmos DB is a cloud-native, geo-distributed, highly scalable schema-less database provided by Microsoft Azure. Cosmos DB achieves cloud-scale horizontal scalability by utilizing a partitioning scheme....
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Live Streaming for Devs
Why Stream? If you don’t have school-aged children, you might not know that live streaming is the hot thing at the moment. Imagine telling your younger self that you could not only get paid for playing...
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Controlling Sensitive Output from Azure Pipelines Deployment Scripts
Introduction Unfortunately, Azure DevOps does not have a SaaS offering running in Azure Government. The only options are to spin up Azure DevOps server in your Azure Government tenant or connect the...
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A Use Case for Containers in a Multi-Platform Environment
I support projects where we have platforms like SharePoint, are looking towards adopting PowerApps, and have Azure Government subscriptions. While learning about containers, I wondered where they could...
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Azure API Management and Custom Connectors
Summary To break this series apart into more manageable chunks, in this installment, we’ll focus on setting up the API in Azure API Management (APIM) and the custom connector. If you missed the first...
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Power Apps DevOps Using Best Practices
Assumptions This write up is executed in sequence in that if you jump to a section, it assumes you have completed the parts before it. This write-up assumes the following; You have a Power Apps tenant...
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How to Choose the Right Kind of Azure Storage Account
It would not be unfair to say that Azure Storage is one of Azure’s most essential services. Almost all the other services in Azure use Azure Storage in some shape or form. AIS has been involved with...
View ArticleFrom Conversations to Documentation: 9 Tips for Writing System Requirements
Recently I completed a project that was challenging in the best of ways. We were asked to study and understand the client’s current system to write their next system requirements. The client asked us...
View Article7 Rules for Flawless Azure Naming Convention
Introduction As enterprises start to utilize Azure resources, even a reasonably small footprint can begin to accumulate thousands of individual resources. This means that the resource count for much...
View ArticleDelivering HTTPS Certificates Using Azure Kubernetes Service and Key Vault...
Kubernetes has become the go-to orchestrator for running containers. At AIS, we are working with clients using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), applying our expertise in DevOps. One concern is...
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