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Build an Intelligent Twitter Bot with LUIS, Logic & Function Apps
Did you know you can build an intelligent twitter bot and run it for just pennies a month using Azure’s Logic and Function apps, coupled with Microsoft’s Language Understanding Intelligence Service...
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Hands On With Microsoft Power Platform, Part Three
If you didn’t catch the first two parts of this series, you can do that here and here. In this part, we’ll get a little more technical and use Microsoft Flow to do some pretty cool things. Remember...
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Azure Web App for Containers, Part One
Azure Web Apps Background I’ve been working with Azure Web Apps for a long time. Before the launch of Azure Web Apps for Containers (or even Azure Web App on Linux), these web apps ran on Windows...
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2018: AIS Blog Year in Review
It’s been another great year here at AIS. We worked on some really cool projects with really great clients, and enjoyed telling you about all about it here on the AIS Blog. Perhaps you’ll consider...
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What Every Developer Ought to Know About #deeplearning and #neuralnetwork
On December 15th, I had the pleasure of presenting a session of “Introduction to Deep Learning” at the recently held #globalAIBootcamp (an amazing event with 68 participating locations worldwide). This...
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Federated Authentication with a SAML Identity Provider
Accurately identifying and authenticating users is an essential requirement for any modern application. As modern applications continue to migrate beyond the physical boundaries of the data center and...
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Three Trends Changing the 2019 Business Applications Landscape
The business intelligence, automation, and enterprise application landscape is changing dramatically. In the previous incarnation of enterprise technology, line-of-business owners were forced to...
View Article.NET Rocks Podcast: Becoming Cloud Native
About the Podcast While attending Kubecon in December 2018, I had the pleasure to be a guest on the .NET Rocks podcast. I talked to Carl and Richard about what it means to be cloud-native, the on-going...
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Power Platform is all PLATFORM
Driving value, lowering costs, and building your organization’s future with Microsoft’s next great business technology Lately, I’ve been helping folks understand the Microsoft Power Platform (MPP) by...
View ArticleFree Whitepaper on Azure Cost Management: Background, Tools, and Approaches
As organizations increase their footprint the cloud, there’s increased scrutiny on mounting cloud consumption costs, reigniting a discussion about longer-term costs. This is not an entirely unexpected...
View ArticleAIS to Sponsor and Present at Ignite the Tour DC
Calling all developers, tech professionals, and IT and business leaders! February 4-5, 2019, Microsoft is hosting the Ignite the Tour DC event in Washington, D.C. at the Walter E. Washington Convention...
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Pulumi: The New IaC Tool
Define cloud apps and infrastructure in your favorite language and deploy to any cloud with Pulumi. If you search the Internet for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), it’s pretty easy to come up with a list...
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Traffic Routing in Kubernetes via Istio and Envoy Proxy
Today, let’s talk about network isolation and traffic policy within the context of Kubernetes. Network Policy Specification Kubernetes’ first-class notion of networking policy allows a customer to...
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AIS & Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center: Serving Our Community Together
As I was nearing retirement from the Air Force, I received briefings reminding me that the world outside of the military is nothing like the one inside of it. It’s a dog eat dog world out there;...
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AIS Gets the Gold With SIX Microsoft Gold Partner Competencies
We’re proud to announce that AIS has successfully renewed all six of our Microsoft Gold Partner competencies for 2019. AIS has been consistently recognized as a Microsoft Gold Partner for many years...
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HOW TO: Create an Exact Age Field in Microsoft PowerApps and Dynamics
I recently encountered an issue when trying to create an Exact Age column for a contact in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. There were several solutions available on the internet, but none of them was a good...
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A Developer’s Guide to Container Orchestration, Kubernetes, & AKS
If you’ve worked in software development or IT for any amount of time, chances are you’ve at least heard about containers…and maybe even Kubernetes. Maybe you’ve heard that Google manages to spin up...
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AIS Community Donation Drives Support Our Local Communities
It started off as a small idea – a donation drive to support a local organization – and quickly expanded into multiple drives across the country. The AIS Women’s Network began in October 2018 as a...
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Oracle Database as a Service on Azure (Almost!)
Let’s say you are trying to move an Oracle database to Azure, but don’t want to go down the route of creating an Oracle Database in an Azure VM for obvious reasons: You don’t want to be responsible for...
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Microsoft PowerApps: Aggregate Fields with Custom Workflow Activity
I’m working on a project with a straightforward requirement that’s typically solved with out-of-the-box PowerApps platform features. The customer needs to capture employment application data as part of...
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