One of my learning goals for this half year was to learn more about AI. Although I’m focusing my learning mainly on low-level AI (Python, ML, Data Science), I was pretty happy to get involved in a customer project using the Microsoft Form Recognizer. This blog post will cover the Form Recognizer and it’s functionality. […]
Using Azure Resource Graph to optimize your scripts
I had to get some data out of a large Azure environment yesterday. What I needed was a quick way to get all machines of a certain size. Typically, I would have used Azure Powershell or Azure CLI to get this done. Create a loop over all resource groups, get all the resources in the […]
Introduction to Dapr
It’s already been about 6 months since Microsoft announced Dapr. Dapr, or Distributed Application Runtime, is an open source project with the goal to enable developers to write microservices. That’s a nice goal, and in this blog we’ll explore what this means. Since its launch, I’ve heard more and more about Dapr. As with every […]
A day in the life of a Cloud Solution Architect in times of COVID-19
A read a blog post last week that explained the day in the life of a software developer at Slack. I really enjoyed reading about somebody else’s work schedule, and decided to share a day in my life. I’m currently a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft in Silicon Valley. I work with a number of […]
Tag resources created by a Databricks cluster
A lot of organizations rely on tags for organizing Azure resources. Tags are useful to contain metadata about owners, environment, function and are also very useful to keep track of costs. When you create an Azure Databricks cluster, the service will create a managed resource group on your behalf. This managed resource group has a […]