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In this final part of this series of posts covering how to build your own air quality alerting system I will build out the alerting subsystem.

In this final part of this series of posts covering how to build your own air quality alerting system I will build out the alerting subsystem.

Anyone who was living in Australia during the 2019/2020 summer can't help but remember the massive bushfires we had, and the impact they had on air quality.

For an upcoming demo I developed a small Azure Function written in Python, whose job it is to create a thumbnail image of a JPEG file.

Thanks to UK-based Microsoft MVPs Gregor Suttie and Richard Hooper there is a great initiative through December 2019 that is doing 25 days of community-generated content...

If you are getting started working with Azure you might come across a few key terms that it's important to have a good understanding of. In this post I'm going to cover what I think are four of the key ones.

Yesterday afternoon while doing some work I ran into an issue in Azure. Initially I thought this issue was due to a bug in my (new) code...

I recently spoke at the Innovation Days 2016 event held in Sydney on Azure AD B2C...

Like many things in Azure, Azure App Service has a multitude of consumption options available that can sometimes make it hard to determine what option suits your use.

I'll be speaking at the upcoming community-run Global Azure Bootcamp in Sydney.

I've been doing a lot of PowerShell DSC on Azure VMs recently, so I thought I'd share my experience in debugging custom DSC Modules...

A big part of where Microsoft Azure is going is being driven by template-defined environments that leverage the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) for deployment orchestration.

Read how you can improve your security posture for Azure SQL Database.

Read how you can move from the traditional Administrator / Co-Adminstrator setup to leveraging RBAC.

Here's a TL;DR summary on containers and the Windows announcement this week.

Since October 2014 it has been possible to add a public IP address to a virtual machine in Azure...

I'm going to start by saying that I totally missed that the setting of distribution mode on Azure’s Internal Load Balancer (ILB) service is possible.

Great to be a part of this team, and what a great recognition for everyone's efforts!

Ignite was huge - 22,000+ attendees, 4.5 days and a session catalogue that ran into easily 100+ sessions.

If your business is migrating workloads to Azure the chances are at some point you will probably want to create a form of private interconnect with Azure.

Ever since Microsoft announced their G Series Virtual Machines for Azure I’ve been looking for a good reason to fire one up and kick the tyres.

Traditionally for Google-based identities, ACS utilised OpenID which Google is retiring in favour of an OAuth 2.0 implementation ("OpenID Connect").

In this post we walk through how to use row level security with an existing SQL database.

I enjoyed writing my last post on Azure SQL Database that I thought I'd take a look at another recently added feature - Auditing.

In this post we walk through how to set up dynamic data masking for an existing database.

It's been hard to miss the increasing presence of Docker, particularly if you work in cloud technology.

What a massive year it's been for Microsoft's Azure public cloud platform. Let's take a look!

For those of you who didn't get a chance to come along to my presentation on Azure API Management at TechEd...

For those of you who didn't get a chance to come along to my presentation on Azure API Management at TechEd...

I've been busy through October writing...

I'm having fun playing with the new Azure Resource Manager Tags feature.  So much so I blogged about it...

I'll be speaking in Melbourne on 7 October on the topic 'Microsoft Azure API Management: Win Friends and Make Money'.

In doing my prep for my upcoming talk at TechEd Australia I came across this gem from April 2004...

I had some interesting challenges last week in managing Azure SQL Database from inside of Visual Studio 2013.

See how in less than 30 lines of code you can enumerate all virtual machines in a subscription and then power them off.

Learn how to unblock someone who has a personal email address that matches an Azure AD organisational account.

I've been working hard the last couple of weeks getting things ready for my session ...

I am proposing a new metric for use in cloud autoscale. Read on to see why.

One of the least used and understood features of SharePoint Online is the Partner Access License or PAL...

Autoscale is one of the facets of the cloud that I see often misunderstood by developers and IT Pros alike, so let's take a look at it in more detail.

How do you keep applications running in Azure? Your Dad wants to know!

It's another session with your Dad, this time looking at messaging and eventing in Microsoft Azure.

Your dad has more questions on big data, so let's get a look at data in Microsoft Azure.

Your dad still has questions, so here's the second in my series of posts looking at Microsoft Azure.

There's a lot to Microsoft Azure. Your Dad would be amazed...

I pulled together some of the best free tech videos I've watched and learned from during the year.

A really quick and easy tip for those starting out doing mobile development with Xamarin...

I've been working hard the last couple of weeks getting things ready for my session ...

If you have ever provisioned a SQL Server instance running on Azure IaaS and not used a VPN solution you will find...

In this post we cover how you can utilise Windows Azure Access Control Services (ACS) as a Security Token Service (STS) to centralise and simplify authentication.

A quick link to a blog on connecting a website on Azure PaaS to a database running on an Azure VM.

Unsurprisingly, I think the way Cloud Computing is transforming the IT industry is also leading to easier ways to learn and develop skills about the Cloud.

In this day of elastic on-demand compute resource it can be easy to lose focus on how best to leverage a smaller footprint when it's so easy to add capacity.

After what seems like ages we finally managed to get to the bottom of the weird issues we were having with a load balanced instance of Umbraco hosted at AWS.

Here we are at just past the half way mark of 2012 and it's time to ask yourself "do I have any skin in the cloud game?"