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Building a Web Scraper in an Azure Function
Web development is arguably the most popular area of software development right now. Software developers can make snappy, eye-catching websites, and build robust APIs. I’ve recently developed a...
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Cosmos DB: Recommended Usage Patterns
Cosmos DB is a cloud-native, geo-distributed, highly scalable schema-less database provided by Microsoft Azure. Cosmos DB achieves cloud-scale horizontal scalability by utilizing a partitioning scheme....
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Live Streaming for Devs
Why Stream? If you don’t have school-aged children, you might not know that live streaming is the hot thing at the moment. Imagine telling your younger self that you could not only get paid for playing...
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Controlling Sensitive Output from Azure Pipelines Deployment Scripts
Introduction Unfortunately, Azure DevOps does not have a SaaS offering running in Azure Government. The only options are to spin up Azure DevOps server in your Azure Government tenant or connect the...
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A Use Case for Containers in a Multi-Platform Environment
I support projects where we have platforms like SharePoint, are looking towards adopting PowerApps, and have Azure Government subscriptions. While learning about containers, I wondered where they could...
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Azure API Management and Custom Connectors
Summary To break this series apart into more manageable chunks, in this installment, we’ll focus on setting up the API in Azure API Management (APIM) and the custom connector. If you missed the first...
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Power Apps DevOps Using Best Practices
Assumptions This write up is executed in sequence in that if you jump to a section, it assumes you have completed the parts before it. This write-up assumes the following; You have a Power Apps tenant...
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How to Choose the Right Kind of Azure Storage Account
It would not be unfair to say that Azure Storage is one of Azure’s most essential services. Almost all the other services in Azure use Azure Storage in some shape or form. AIS has been involved with...
View ArticleFrom Conversations to Documentation: 9 Tips for Writing System Requirements
Recently I completed a project that was challenging in the best of ways. We were asked to study and understand the client’s current system to write their next system requirements. The client asked us...
View Article7 Rules for Flawless Azure Naming Convention
Introduction As enterprises start to utilize Azure resources, even a reasonably small footprint can begin to accumulate thousands of individual resources. This means that the resource count for much...
View ArticleDelivering HTTPS Certificates Using Azure Kubernetes Service and Key Vault...
Kubernetes has become the go-to orchestrator for running containers. At AIS, we are working with clients using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), applying our expertise in DevOps. One concern is...
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Desktop Application Development: Pairing Electron with Vue
Building cross-platform applications is an excellent option for many organizations that need to support different technology vendors. Today, we can build websites that reach a massive audience...
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Building AWS CloudFormation Mappings with PowerShell
Executive Summary This blog post is for anyone working with AWS CloudFormation Templates and are looking for ways to improve template versatility by including mappings. It begins by describing how the...
View ArticlePractical Usage for DSC Configuration Data
Introduction Configuration Data for DSC is somewhat analogous to configuration files in traditional applications; different environments can have their own Configuration Data file. The 2 main topics I...
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Lessons Learned: Azure Cognitive Service QnA Maker
Recently we integrated Azure QnA Maker Service with SharePoint Search page for one of our DoD Customers so thought to share my experience and lesson learned with broader audiences. Generally, QnA Maker...
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Build a Leave Request App with Power Apps
This blog is a step-by-step walkthrough of building a fully functioning leave request app for any organization with a vacation, sick leave, military leave, bereavement leave, holidays, Jury Duty, and...
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The Fluent Design System
We live in fractious times! Let’s escape for a few minutes to consider how Microsoft is moving us toward calm and synchrony. Together with a consistent, organized design aesthetic, the Fluent Design...
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Baseline Security for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure Kubernetes Service is a Microsoft Azure-hosted offering that allows for the ease of deploying and managing your Kubernetes clusters. There is much to be said about AKS and its abilities, but I...
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Leaping into DevSecOps from DevOps
DevOps implements a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) process. When multiple team members work in the same codebase, anyone’s update could break the integrated code. So, Continuous...
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Third Party Modules in Azure Automation
Introduction PowerShell DSC is possibly one of the most potent configuration managers for Windows Operating Systems. Even with the increase in popularity of Ansible and SaltStack, Powershell DSC...
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