When Pete and I started building our “Band on the Run” project, we used Azure Event Hubs as the ingestion point for all the Microsoft Band telemetry. It’s a highly scalable ingress service that can handle millions of events per second, into which its easy to plug downstream components to process and store that data,… Read more
For the last 6 months or so, since the first version of the Microsoft Band shipped, Peter Daukintis and I have been experimenting with it from a developer perspective, in the form of an open source project we have called “Band on the Run” (not to be mistaken for the seminal pop album) . We… Read more
Time to update my bio: David Gristwood works as technical evangelist at Microsoft in the UK where he has spent his time helping developers and technical folk understand and get the best from the Microsoft platform. He works as architect with deep technical skills in Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft cloud platform, primarily working with… Read more