A tutorial on building data pipelines using Microsoft Azure Data Factory, covering ingestion, transformation, and orchestration.
A personal recap of the first day at VMworld Europe 2015, covering sessions on the evolving IT admin role and hybrid cloud.
A developer presents Gnocchi, an OpenStack metrics project, at a Paris meetup, explaining its purpose, functionality, and advantages over Ceilometer.
A technical tutorial on building an IoT solution using Microsoft Orleans and Azure, covering grains, state persistence, and deployment.
Interview with a software engineer about his work on OpenStack, his role at Red Hat, and his book on Python.
A summary of five key announcements and technologies from VMworld US 2015, focusing on VMware's virtualization and cloud innovations.
A blogger's preview and preparation for attending VMworld Europe 2015, covering virtualization and cloud technology conference tracks.
Explains Azure WebJobs for running background tasks and scheduled workloads on Azure App Service, highlighting their cost-effectiveness and integration.
A tutorial on building a reporting application and deploying it using Microsoft Azure RemoteApp, a cloud service for hosting Windows applications.
Explains how to optimize SQL Server performance and reduce costs on Microsoft Azure using flexible IaaS configurations and storage strategies.
A technical overview and personal notes on Amazon's ECS (EC2 Container Service), explaining its core concepts, workflow, and current state.
A guide to setting up and running Docker containers on Microsoft Azure, covering initial setup, common pitfalls, and management from a Linux host.
A detailed review of Microsoft Azure's major updates, feature releases, and milestones throughout the year 2014.
A 2014 TechEd talk on Azure API Management, now archived, with slides and a dead video link.
A collection of technical blog posts from October focused on Microsoft Azure deployment, management, and troubleshooting.
Summary of the TechEd Europe 2014 keynote, highlighting new Windows 10 features, Azure capabilities, and enterprise security announcements.
A first-hand account of the VMware vForum 2014 in London, covering keynotes on the software-defined enterprise, vCloud Hybrid Service, VDI, and Virtual SAN.
Proposes a new cloud computing metric, Time-To-Scale-Out (TTSO), and discusses best practices for effective autoscaling in cloud environments.
A developer's summary of the OpenStack Juno Design Summit, focusing on Ceilometer project discussions, scaling challenges, and future improvements.
Explores common misunderstandings about cloud auto-scaling, explaining why it's not magic and why existing apps often can't use it directly.
