Cloud Solution Architect

Welcome back to the Azure 101 series. In the previous blog posts, I covered two of the most commonly...

Date: 10/05/2018

Originally I was going to have my next Azure 101 post be about Networking as that is another set of...

Date: 09/04/2018

The code referenced in this article can be found here: https://github.com/ssemyan/TodoServerless...

Date: 09/03/2018

UPDATE: Added additional resource at bottom I have worked with a lot of different customers over the...

Date: 08/14/2018

There are already many articles and documents that have been created on how to develop a ChatBot...

Date: 07/30/2018

The files used in this article can be found here:...

Date: 06/27/2018

Traditional on prem Disaster Recovery (DR) discussions almost always include requirements around RPO...

Date: 05/02/2018

If you are an enterprise customer that has existing Windows Server licenses that you want to use in...

Date: 03/20/2018

In this short blog post, I am going to show how to query the status of replicated items in an Azure...

Date: 03/01/2018

Cost is always a concern with customers when it comes to the cloud. I've had a number of...

Date: 02/23/2018

In this short post I wanted to share a couple of recommendations that I give to customers to ensure...

Date: 01/17/2018

In my previous blog post I walked through a scenario leveraging Azure Functions and Event Grid to...

Date: 12/22/2017

In this blog post we're going to take a look at how we can create a serverless solution to enable a...

Date: 11/21/2017

This blog is part 4 of a series that covers relevant Azure fundamentals - concepts/terminology you...

Date: 11/01/2017

One of the frequent questions I get from customers is how to stay up to date on all the latest and...

Date: 10/31/2017

Motivation for this blog... On my last day at my former workplace, where I mostly worked on customer...

Date: 10/26/2017

There have been a number of recent high profile data exposures related to storage of data within...

Date: 09/19/2017

Azure resources can be provisioned and modified a multitude of ways, through the portal, via...

Date: 08/09/2017

I have been working with a customer for the last two years that has their eCommerce platform...

Date: 08/08/2017

This post is first in its series to give high level overview of building an end-to-end DApp on...

Date: 07/29/2017

I have been coding since I was 9 years old and I have always loved coding, but have never made it a...

Date: 06/13/2017

Having spent many years in the Public Sector space, I have made a lot of friends on both the...

Date: 05/17/2017

<Updated Service Note> Please note that this capability has now been integrated into...

Date: 05/05/2017

One of the great features of Azure ARM templates is that you can do template linking so that you can...

Date: 04/05/2017

** Edit 6/6/2017 ** The upload script has now been updated to allow for SAS token authentication in...

Date: 04/03/2017

In my last post, I provided you with some simple steps on how to "Get Started" with the Azure Backup...

Date: 01/13/2017

One of the biggest questions that we have been getting from either customers that are new to Azure...

Date: 01/05/2017

The Azure marketplace has quite a few prebuilt virtual machines with SQL Server already in them from...

Date: 01/04/2017

On occasion you may have a need to move the Azure temporary drive to a different drive letter. Azure...

Date: 01/03/2017

Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) are an awesome solution available on Azure, providing autoscale...

Date: 12/29/2016

Spring is a popular framework for Java based application development.  Spring Boot makes Spring...

Date: 11/23/2016

The files used in this article can be found in GitHub here:...

Date: 11/11/2016

The technique of Blue/Green deployments has been around for a long time. The goal is to reduce...

Date: 10/17/2016

Logs are critical to any system for monitoring and diagnostics. In the world of microservices, the...

Date: 10/06/2016

(from Christoph Schittko) This template illustrates secure deployment of SSL certificates to a VM...

Date: 10/04/2016

Docker for Azure lets you quickly setup and configure a working Docker 1.12.1 swarm-mode install on...

Date: 09/16/2016

Azure DNS service (preview) is a hosted service for DNS domains, providing name resolution using...

Date: 09/08/2016

In a recent project we were trying to setup an active-active MariaDB cluster with custom script...

Date: 08/25/2016

When creating new Azure Linux virtual machines, it is recommended you use SSH keys to connect to the...

Date: 08/24/2016

For many of those who know me, they know that I am very much a proponent of the Azure Resource...

Date: 08/22/2016

In my last blog post, I talked about a solution that I built for one of my customers that leveraged...

Date: 08/15/2016

Recently I participated in a hackathon with one of my customers to help them get up to speed on...

Date: 07/02/2016

Azure Event Hubs are a great way to ingest data in Azure for consumption by other services. They are...

Date: 05/25/2016

Update 06/18/2018: This article has been superseded by this one from Azure support:...

Date: 05/24/2016

One of my customers recently asked me to help them solve what sounded like a pretty simple problem...

Date: 05/09/2016

Azure RemoteApp (ARA) is an Azure service that enables companies to deploy their business...

Date: 04/08/2016

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