Couple months ago I started a new series of posts here about Common Data Models (CDM). The idea with that was to starting some exploration around this new technology brought by Microsoft into the market throughout its data services in Azure, and where the benefits of it resides. The first Read more…
Integration isn’t a simple topic to talk about. This is because, over the years, different methodologies and technologies were made available in the market to bring some sort of facilitation to a, by nature, very complex task – make systems talk to each other. While REST APIs has been establishing Read more…
If I could elect a top ask from my clients when designing a new architecture that envisions a new environment in the public cloud, that would be “I need to keep my entire set of data, APIs and underlying applications private”. We all know that this is a valid concern, Read more…
Most of the modern web applications out there are API-based, right? Americas University (AU) is not an exception to that. There are, at least, dozens of applications under their current environment nowadays which rely on different types of APIs to properly work. It turns out that, over time, Americas University’s technical teams Read more…
One of the key needs of customers implementing analytics solutions in the cloud is to move data between clouds. Indeed, most of the customers I’ve been working with after knowing Azure’s capabilities for data and analytics want to bring data from their current data provider (regardless it is a public Read more…
Recently, I was invited by a customer (Americas University) to be part of a discussion around “how to build a content tracker solution” to address a specific need they have. A couple of weeks later, we came up with the solution which I’m going to guide you throughout this post. Read more…
Processing video is that kind of scenario that fits perfectly for cloud computing, right? I mean, it usually requires a certain power of processing (video is usually a heavy kind of workload) available, it does require a considerable amount of storage, it usually needs to be high-scalable (depending on the Read more…
On September 19, 2019 I had the chance to present a webinar about Azure Lab Services to Brazilian customers. Dozens of customers joined the call, and together we had the chance to dig into both concepts and practical aspects of service usage. Below you can find the deck presented at Read more…
Docker Swarm is the containers orchestration solution built from the ground up and maintained by Docker. Through an additional layer on top of the Docker Engine and taking advantage of a subset of built-in commands, Swarm does provides to developers and infrastructure professionals a simplified way to accomplish something non-trivial Read more…
Containers appeared on the market of technology as “the next big step” on the evolutionary scale of application servers. However, for a while, doing something really serious (productive environments that needed scaling, and such) with containers was virtually impossible, even relying on the power of the public cloud. The reason Read more…