Hi everyone! I am back from Berlin, Germany! It’s been a busy few months but I wanted to give you an update on what I’ve been up to for the “Microsoft Ignite: The Tour” and even demo a quick preview of what you’ll be able to see on future stops. In this blog post you’ll
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I am back with another video tutorial on using Azure’s multi-model database service, Cosmos DB. Azure Cosmos DB was built from the ground up with global distribution and horizontal scale at its core. It offers turnkey global distribution across any number of Azure regions by transparently scaling and replicating your data wherever your users are.
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Today we’ll be reviewing how to add additional storage to your Microsoft Azure Linux VM. This tutorial will review running a MySQL database server on a an Azure VM and increasing the amount of storage available to you. There are many options on where you may want to host a database, but today we’ll focus
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Sometime in the early 2000s I worked for a company that provided datacenter colocation and managed server hosting. One evening about 3000 servers hosted in a small datacenter outside of Central NJ provided me with a really amazing lesson. During a Saturday evening, just before midnight the local utility power to the datacenter was knocked
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Hello friends, I am back! After a few days in San Francisco for Chaos Conf and then time at Velocity, I am back home. These two conferences really provided me with a ton of new information and education. I’ll do a full review of Velocity tomorrow morning. Today I needed to scale up this blog
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On Friday, September 28, 2018 I attended Chaos Conf 2018 at the Alamo Draft House in the Mission section of San Francisco. This was Gremlin’s first conference and it was a tremendous success. A sold out 350 attendees took part In discussions surrounding the emerging field of chaos engineering. The profile of the attendees were
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Hey everyone, I’m back with a new tutorial on using Microsoft Azure along with ARM Templates. In this video I show you how to deploy a template from a previously created VM. We’ll modify the parameters so you can quickly spin up additional VMs without using any additional software. Here are some reference
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Good morning… FRIDAY! Today I start my morning off with reminding you about the Azure Status page, talk about Linux code of conduct and remind you about Microsoft Ignite! If you’re looking to chat more, reach out on Twitter!
Hey all, thanks for sticking with my blog, check out this new video update featuring the amazing Sweet Baby Rico. Sorry about the brightness, getting used to this still! Will modify my recording space a bit more next time. A quick update: Three weeks at MSFT! Microsoft Ignite 2018 (9/24-9/28/2018 Orlando, FL) Chaos
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Video Tutorial Time! This time I start showing you how to build a basic Ubuntu Linux VM on the Microsoft Azure Cloud.