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Azure Analysis Services for Enterprise Semantic Models
A semantic model sits between raw data and end user tools, providing: Business friendly names and descriptions Calculated measures and KPIs Row level…
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Power BI Paginated Reports for Operational Reporting
Paginated reports excel when you need: Pixel perfect formatting for print Multi page documents with headers/footers Parameter driven report generation…
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Power BI Premium Per User - Enterprise Features for Everyone
Power BI Premium Per User launched as the answer to "my team needs paginated reports, deployment pipelines, and large dataset support but we don't have a…
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Visual ETL with Azure Synapse Data Flows
Data flows in Synapse run on Spark clusters and offer: Visual drag and drop interface 80+ built in transformations Schema drift handling Data preview and…
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Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pools for Enterprise Data Warehousing
Dedicated SQL pools distribute data across 60 distributions for parallel processing: Control node : Orchestrates queries and manages metadata Compute nodes…
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Real-Time Analytics with Cosmos DB Analytical Store
The question that sparked this post came from a data engineer on a client project: "can we run Power BI reports against Cosmos DB without destroying the…
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Azure Cosmos DB Serverless - Pay Per Request Database
We had a Cosmos DB Serverless conversation at the end of 2020 and I'm returning to it because the experience of using it in actual development over two…
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Building Real-Time Applications with Azure SignalR Service
Azure Web PubSub is the lower-level real-time service that sits alongside SignalR. Where SignalR abstracts the transport and provides a hub model for your…
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Real-Time Web Applications with Azure SignalR Service
I've tried to roll my own WebSocket fanout exactly once. It worked beautifully for 200 concurrent connections and melted at 2,000. Azure SignalR Service…
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Centralized Configuration Management with Azure App Configuration
Traditional configuration approaches using appsettings.json or environment variables have limitations: No central management Requires redeployment for…
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Azure Container Instances for Serverless Container Workloads
ACI is the container service I reach for when I need a container running in under two minutes and I don't want to explain what a node pool is. Per-second…
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Running Windows Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service
Many enterprises have legacy .NET Framework applications that cannot easily migrate to .NET Core. Windows containers provide a path to containerization…
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Azure Kubernetes Service Networking Deep Dive
AKS networking is the part of Kubernetes that looks like a detail until it becomes a blocker. "I can't reach the on-prem database from the cluster" is a…
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Extending Azure Management with Azure Arc
Azure Arc is the product I've recommended most in 2021 that clients are slowest to adopt. Not because they don't need it—they do—but because "manage your…
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Maximizing Value with Azure Hybrid Benefit
Azure Hybrid Benefit is the discount that nobody in finance remembers to claim and every consultant I know flags in the first cost review. If you have…
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Maximizing Savings with Azure Reservations
Reservations are the Azure cost conversation nobody has early enough. Pay-as-you-go is convenient; reserved instances are a commitment that rewards the…
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The 3 Types of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies people I’ve met
I've been in the crazy Blockchain space for quite a while now. I've had a lot of conversations and people I've met online and in-person to talk about it.…
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Optimizing Cloud Spend with Azure Cost Management
Cloud bills have a way of arriving late and being everyone's problem at once. Cost Management is the tool that moves that conversation from quarterly shock…
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Deep Dive into Application Insights
Application Insights is the monitoring tool that pays you back in proportion to how much you invest in it. Out of the box you get…
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Mastering Log Analytics Queries with KQL
KQL is the query language I've spent the most hours in this year that most developers have never heard of. If you use Log Analytics, Sentinel, Application…
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Proactive Monitoring with Azure Monitor Alerts
Azure Monitor supports several alert types: Metric alerts Based on metric values crossing thresholds Log alerts Based on Log Analytics query results…
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Why I don’t read or watch mainstream media that much
Ever since I was a kid, I was never really the person who watches the mainstream television to watch news. Watching news on a television is a culture that a…
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Azure Resource Manager Templates Best Practices
I've written a lot of ARM templates in the past three years, and I've also inherited a lot of ARM templates written by people who were having a bad day. The…
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CI/CD to Azure with GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions went from "interesting alternative to Azure DevOps Pipelines" to "my default CI/CD choice for most new Azure projects" in about twelve…