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Dataverse Tables - Data Modeling for the Power Platform
Tables you create for your specific business needs. Connect to external data sources without importing data.
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Power Automate Cloud Flows - Building Intelligent Automation
Power Automate cloud flows are the thing I recommend to the "I don't want to write code" person on every client engagement, and they almost always produce…
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Logic Apps Connectors - A Deep Dive into Enterprise Integration
Logic Apps connectors are the product feature that makes integration architects either love or dread the platform. Over 400 connectors covering everything…
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Azure Durable Entities - Stateful Actors in Serverless
Durable Entities are addressable units of state that process operations one at a time. Think of them as lightweight actors - each entity has a unique…
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Azure Durable Functions Orchestration Patterns
The magic happens through the Durable Task Framework, which handles state persistence, checkpointing, and replay automatically.
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Time Series Anomaly Detection with Azure Anomaly Detector
Anomaly Detector is the Cognitive Service I pull out when someone asks "can you tell us when something goes wrong?" and the answer is "I don't know exactly…
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Intelligent Document Processing with Azure Form Recognizer
Form Recognizer is where I've seen the most immediate ROI from Cognitive Services in enterprise settings. Accounts payable teams manually keying invoice…
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Building Custom Image Classifiers with Custom Vision
Custom Vision fills the gap that the general-purpose Computer Vision API can't: domain-specific image classification and object detection where the model…
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Image Analysis with Azure Computer Vision
Computer Vision is the Cognitive Service that covers the "I have an image and I need to know what's in it" scenario without training a custom model. Read…
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Multilingual Applications with Azure Translator
Azure Translator is one of the Cognitive Services that I've shipped most quietly—it tends to be a two-day integration rather than a headline feature, but…
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Natural Language Understanding with LUIS
Intents : Categories of user actions (e.g., BookFlight, GetWeather) Entities : Important data to extract (e.g., locations, dates, quantities) Utterances :…
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Building FAQ Bots with QnA Maker
QnA Maker simplifies building knowledge based chatbots: Easy content import from URLs, documents, and manual entry Natural language understanding for…
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Building Intelligent Bots with Azure Bot Service
I've built bot projects with the Bot Framework that I'm proud of, and bot projects that I wish I could forget. The difference is almost always scope…
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Azure Cognitive Services Speech - Voice-Enabled Applications
Azure Speech Services enable rich voice experiences: Speech to Text : Real time transcription with high accuracy Text to Speech : Natural sounding neural…
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Azure RTOS for Real-Time IoT Applications
ThreadX : RTOS kernel with preemptive scheduling NetX Duo : TCP/IP network stack (IPv4 and IPv6) FileX : FAT compatible embedded file system GUIX : Graphics…
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Azure Sphere for Secured IoT Device Development
1. Azure Sphere MCU : Secured silicon with hardware based security 2. Azure Sphere OS : Linux based secured operating system 3. Azure Sphere Security…
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Azure Digital Twins for Smart Environment Modeling
Azure Digital Twins was the service that reframed how I think about IoT data. Most IoT architectures I'd built treated device telemetry as a stream: events…
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Azure IoT Hub Device Twins for State Management
Device twins are the feature in Azure IoT Hub that solved a problem I didn't fully appreciate until a client had 3,000 industrial sensors in two factories…
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Using Azure Event Hubs with Kafka Protocol
Event Hubs with Kafka protocol offers: No Kafka cluster management Automatic scaling 99.99% SLA Native Azure integration Pay per throughput pricing Event…
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Azure Stream Analytics for Real-Time Data Processing
Azure Stream Analytics sits in a specific niche that I've come to appreciate: SQL-native stream processing for teams who shouldn't have to learn Spark or…
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Real-Time Data Processing with Spark Structured Streaming
The appeal of Spark Structured Streaming is that you write it almost identically to a batch Spark job. Same DataFrame API, same transformations, same Spark…
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Delta Lake Time Travel - Versioned Data Lake Queries
Delta Lake time travel is the feature that makes "oops" survivable. An engineer runs a DELETE with a typo in the WHERE clause. A batch job writes corrupt…
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Azure Databricks Workspace Management and Data Governance Best Practices
Databricks workspace governance was the problem nobody thought about until there were thirty workspaces, fifteen clusters running overnight, and six teams…
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How to disable auto-locking of MacOS Keychains
We streamlined the configuration of our Mac Build agents to a repository where we can update our Provisioning Profiles, Keychains, etc.