2009, 2017

What is the Bot Conversation History with Azure Cosmos DB?

By |September 20th, 2017|Azure How To, General, Microsoft Azure, New Features|0 Comments

Bot Framework State is a service to track the context of a previous conversation with a specific user.  Bot Builder SDK users are well-aware of the importance of this feature as it helps you in data analysis and data auditing. Sentiment analysis and funnel analysis are the scenarios where you need Bot conversation and machine […]

1809, 2017

How Does IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service Automates Device Connection?

By |September 18th, 2017|Azure How To, Azure News, Microsoft Azure, New Features|0 Comments

Azure IoT device provisioning service lets the users supervise millions of devices in a secure manner with the help of Azure IoT Hub. The Device Provisioning Service automates a process that requires extensive time and resources to run while the managing of multiple devices simultaneously has become very effortless. It’s the only cloud-based service which […]

909, 2017

How to Check Network Connectivity using VM

By |September 9th, 2017|Azure How To, Azure News, Microsoft Azure, New Features|0 Comments

Finding out an issue in network connectivity and performance in the cloud was a critical issue in the past due to the complex network of systems. The  Azure Network Watcherhas addressed the problem and presented the solution in the form of  check network connectivity. Basically, the feature is used to reduce the time of the […]

3107, 2017

R Scripts and Azure Function: A Crazy Duo

By |July 31st, 2017|Azure How To, Azure News, Microsoft Azure|1 Comment

The advancement in technology pitched in the concept of serverless computing. Prior to the latest Microsoft release, it was merely a concept. Now, you can get your hands on by learning R language which the Microsoft Azure has just termed to be the key to access the potential of serverless architecture. It’s a well-known fact […]

1306, 2017

Failover with Traffic Manager from Azure to AWS

By |June 13th, 2017|AWS, Azure How To, Cloud Monitoring, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

This post follows the same approach that we saw in Failover with Route 53 from Azure to AWS, but now the failover will be taken care of by Azure Traffic Manager.

The post will also show how CloudMonix can monitor the web app hosting the website on Azure.

CloudMonix offers advanced monitoring and automation features for Microsoft […]

1605, 2017

Failover with Route 53 from Azure to AWS

By |May 16th, 2017|AWS, Azure How To, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

In this post, we will see how Amazon Route 53 can assist to smoothly failover from one unhealthy resource to a healthy resource with (almost) no impact to users.

This will be covered throughout the post:

Amazon Route 53 basics
Steps to achieve DNS failover
Hands-on to achieve DNS failover

Amazon Route 53 gives the customer the […]

1605, 2017

Using Amazon CloudFront with Azure Blob Storage

By |May 16th, 2017|AWS, Azure How To, Cloud Platforms, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

In this post, we will see how Amazon CloudFront can deliver content out of Azure blob storage.

These are the topics touched throughout the post:

Azure Blob Storage basics
Amazon CloudFront basics
Amazon Route 53 basics
Hands-on to implement the delivery of data using Amazon CloudFront

This is how various services mentioned in the post interact with […]

1404, 2017

Root Cause Analysis with CloudMonix’s Historical Dashboard

By |April 14th, 2017|Azure How To, Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

To discover what caused production issues or to understand why a particular alert was raised, you need to conduct a Root Cause Analysis (RCA). An effective RCA session allows you to fix problems quickly and ensure that systems operate smoothly. However, in today’s complex cloud environments you might have to investigate many connected components before […]

1204, 2017

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets – The Basics

By |April 12th, 2017|Azure How To, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|2 Comments

In this post, we are going to discuss Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS).

We will learn:

What VM scale sets are
How are VM scale sets configured
When to use VM scale sets

Scale sets provide an ability to deploy and manage multiple identical VMs. Scaling in and out allows Azure administrators to increase or decrease […]

604, 2017

Auto-scaling Azure Cloud Services and WebApps based on queue lengths

By |April 6th, 2017|Azure How To, Cloud Automation, General|0 Comments

If you’re running applications in the cloud, you have the ability to use and pay only for resources that are needed to process the current workload.

In many cases, to optimize the usage of compute resources such as Azure Cloud Services (worker roles), Azure WebApps running WebJobs, or Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS), it is […]