https://blog.x5ff.xyz/img/main/logo.png https://blog.x5ff.xyz/categories/azure/ 144 https://blog.x5ff.xyz/categories/azure/ Recent content in Azure on x5ff Hugo -- gohugo.io en Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/factorio-game-server-azure-terraform/ Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/factorio-game-server-azure-terraform/ Do you remember the good old days when SSH, manual tuning, and shell scripts were considered a solid base for running a Linux server? Often I couldn’t remember how I configured something just a day later… These days we have it better: declaration files have become more descriptive code and ideally they produce a consistent state in hardware and software. One such example is the magnificient Terraform. Together with a containers as a deployment format, deployment and maintenance should be a breeze. https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/ai-azureml-python-data-pipelines/ Tue, 24 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/ai-azureml-python-data-pipelines/ The AzureML SDK is Microsoft’s machine learning support framework that comes with several examples, docs, best practices etc. However, working on a simple ETL-type scenario, I learned a few key insights that I wanted to share. First, let’s clarify what AzureML Services are. What is AzureML? The concept of the AzureML framework is great. It supports all areas of the machine learning cycle and it’s generic, which means it works with anything that you are willing to call machine learning. https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/azure-functions-wasm-rust-ai/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/azure-functions-wasm-rust-ai/ Welcome to the wonderful world of Rust … or to be more specific it’s about Rust and WASM Azure Functions Genetic Algorithms Solving a complex optimization problem, fast This is part four in a series of Rust on Azure Functions. The other parts are about performance comparisons (part 1 and part 2), and explaining the PMX algorithm (part 3). If you want to learn more about Genetic Algorithms be sure to read part 3 first). https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/cratedb-iothub-timeseries-prediction/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/cratedb-iothub-timeseries-prediction/ This post is the result of a CSE engagement with Crate.io, where I used to work before Microsoft Convenient data science, wouldn’t that be great? When creating or buying an IoT (Internet of Things) type solution, it comes without any further ways to actually make something out of the data - this is left to you, the user. Where to put the data and store only the relevant bits? How can this be made an easy to use and easy to manage solution for your data scientists? https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/azure-functions-wasm-rust-2/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/azure-functions-wasm-rust-2/ Interaction between technology is great! While giving developers from either language the chance to tap into a potentially larger and - in other areas maybe? - useful technology. These interactions have to be explored to know their limits and where they excel. Explore A couple of weeks back I started using WASM on Azure’s FaaS (serverless/Functions as a Services) and unexpectedly the Rust version of my simple Monte Carlo estimation was considerably slower than its JavaScript counterpart. https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/servicefabric-sql-multiregion-cloud/ Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/servicefabric-sql-multiregion-cloud/ Do you have users around the globe? Have you ever worried about response times or local laws? A major advantage of any cloud provider is that this is usually easy to take care of - however is it worth the extra cost of closer to customers? Commonly - and instinctively - everyone would agree that it makes the experience better. Making it economically viable however is a different story: can startups get into this early on or would the operating expense be too much of a risk? https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/azure-functions-wasm-rust/ Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/azure-functions-wasm-rust/ What do you think about serverless? Is it the best thing ever - or just another terrible idea? Regardless if you love or hate the term or technology, I think universal access to it is critical. And since Rust is fast, safe, and simply awesome I’ll give that a try! Node, wasm & Rust As a high-level recap: NodeJS is a runtime for JavaScript applications based on Google’s V8 engine. It’s highly optimized and provides a way to create JavaScript-based (incl. https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/typescript-bing-search/ Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/typescript-bing-search/ A picture I took near the customer’s office in Bordeaux, FR: Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas This post is about the work I do at Microsoft, read more here. Online retail platforms are strange places, valid information is rare and especially titles seem to be the catch-all. Partly of course, this is encouraged by the platform for SEO reasons and while this is only a slight annoyance for consumers, platform providers struggle a lot more: their goal is to gather structured data about the products (e. https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/rust-ci-cd-vsts/ Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/rust-ci-cd-vsts/ Since I started at Microsoft about 6 months ago, I had to catch up on their (our) tech: Azure, .NET, Visual Studio. Yet as an avid GitHub user I overlooked one thing completely: Visual Studio Team Services! Turns out it’s quite the hidden gem and after a colleague showed me some of its power, I had to look into it more deeply. Turns out it’s an easy and free resource for any project. https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/rust-mqtt-azure-iothub/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/rust-mqtt-azure-iothub/ More Microsoft cloud? Yes! Keep reading to see why I believe that Rust is a great language for IoT - I have posted about making your sensors speak Rust, spoken at conferences and meetups about containerized deployments for Rust, but I felt like there was something missing. Often I felt that I couldn’t leverage existing solutions to go further and build models on top of that temperature data, build a fancy dashboard… . https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/azure-app-services/ Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/azure-app-services/ “Is this another piece of Internet propaganda? Microsoft is just trying to get me to pay for their expensive cloud. I’ll stick with AWS!!11!” We have all had these thoughts about the other cloud provider. However, technology should be for everyone to choose whatever fits their needs. Does Azure fit yours? Read and find out. Regardless of any personal preferences, I thought that Microsoft’s developer tools always were impressively automated and advanced.